Office of the Historian

756.94/114: Telegram

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

Tokyo, May 23, 1940—1 p.m.
[Received May 23—6:48 a.m.]

363. Our 358, May 21, 7 p.m.43

1. Following statement issued yesterday by Foreign Office.

“At 11 o’clock this morning the German Ambassador General Eugen Ott called on Foreign Minister Mr. Hachiro Arita at the Foreign Office. After a brief time explaining to the Foreign Minister the war situation in Europe the German Ambassador conveyed to the Foreign Minister, under instructions from his home Government, that, with reference to the Japanese Government’s communication of May 11, the German Government is not interested in the problem of the Netherlands East Indies.”

[Here follows brief summary of press reports.]

Grew
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