[Secret]
From: Tokyo
To: Washington
1 November 1941
(Purple)
#721
Please
advise this office what actual relationship exists at present between the
original contents of the U. S. proposal of 21 June and the following points:
The
matter pertaining to the exchanging of the official texts which was put into
the 21 June proposal as a footnote to Section 2 thereof, (that part concerning
the attitude of the respective nations to the European war); and, the three
questions which were submitted concerning the United States' proposal of
non-discrimination in trade, a subject which was put in as a supplement to
Section 3, (concerning peace between China and Japan), of the 21 June proposal.
According
to your message #424*, you told Secretary Hull on 22 June that you could not
deliver the official note to the home government. Moreover, there seems to be
indications that the U. S. Government is beginning to understand our viewpoint
with regard to the matter of the right of self-defense.
In
view of these facts, may we assume that the matter of exchanging of official
notes has been dropped by the United States? We must have this information to
discuss this whole matter in a business like manner, so please advise us
immediately, although it may seem like bringing up old issues.
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JD-1: 6323 (D) Navy Trans. 11-7-41 (S-TT)
*JD-1: 3271 (S.I.S #18717, and 18735) dated 24 June Amb. Nomura wires Tokyo that in an interview with Hull, Hull made the Statement that there seems to be influential people in Japan who do not desire an understanding with the U. S. so, after all, does Japan consider the composure of relations between the two countries so important. Nomura replies that such concession as the U. S. has so far offered are not worthy of consideration.
(EXHIBITS
OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 1 INTERCEPTED DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES SENT BY THE
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BETWEEN JULY l AND DECEMBER 8, 1941)