Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, The Far East, Volume VI

894.628/6–2047

Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Northeast Asian Affairs (Allison)

[Washington,] June 20, 1947.

Participants:	Mr. Knut Lykke, Counselor of Norwegian Embassy, and
	Mr. Allison

Mr. Lykke called at his request this morning and handed me the attached aide-mémoire⁹⁴ presenting an official protest from his Government against the decision of the United States Government to authorize the second Antarctic whaling expedition under the control of SCAP.

Mr. Lykke said he wished to emphasize the statement in the Norwegian aide-mémoire that his Government was not convinced of the vital necessity of Antarctic whaling for the purpose of supplying the Japanese population with proteins and that the necessary proteins might more economically be provided through an intensification of the Japanese fisheries.

I told Mr. Lykke that I did not feel able to say any more at this time than had been told him before, but that I would pass on his remarks and copies of the aide-mémoire at once to the interested American authorities.

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