Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1940, The Far East, Volume IV

740.0011 European War 1939/2824: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, May 11, 1940—noon.
[Received May 11—1:29 a.m.]

326. 1. It has been announced that the Cabinet will meet this afternoon to review Japan’s policy of non-involvement in the European war in the light of Germany’s invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands.

2. The press this morning agrees that recent developments do not call for any change in the policy of non-involvement, but it stresses that any change in the status of the Netherlands Indies toward placing this area under American or British control would bring serious consequences.

Grew