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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State
[Washington,] July 5, 1940.
The British Ambassador called at his request and said that Japan was seriously threatening war against Great Britain and that he would like to know whether I had any comment to offer on the situation. I replied that I would not undertake to offer advice. I stated that one way of dealing with the threatened attack would be to devise parleys and protract the situation, adding that this was as a rule entirely feasible.
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