751G.92/159: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
32. Your 55, January 12, 5 p.m., 56, January 12, 6 p.m. and 57, January 12, 7 p.m.
1. Department authorizes you to act in accordance with paragraph numbered 6 of your telegrams under reference, carefully avoiding, as suggested by you, any statement or expression of attitude which might be construed as a suggestion on your part that the French should cede territory to Thailand under the influence of force.
For your information the Department has made a statement to the Thai Minister here and has authorized the American Embassy at Vichy to make an approach to the French Government along the general lines of the first two sentences of paragraph numbered 6 of your telegrams under reference.
2. Department concurs in the views expressed in paragraph numbered 3 of your 1264, December 3, 1940, 4 p.m.34