Office of the Historian

740.0011 Pacific War/8: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consul General at Batavia (Foote)

Washington, October 30, 1940—4 p.m.

Your October 24, 2 p.m. The Department has noted your reference to a communication from the Japanese delegation (presumably to the Netherlands delegation) in which it is asserted that the offers of the oil companies are widely divergent both in quantity and quality from Japan’s needs and in which it is requested that the Netherlands delegation comply with the Japanese proposals. Is this communication in any way inconsistent with Mukai’s acceptance on October 19, reported in your October 21, 3 p.m.,40 of the quantities which the oil companies offered? Please clarify.

Hull
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