[Secret]
From: Tokyo
To: Washington
November 6, 1941
Purple (CA)
#740
Re
your #1025. [a]
Through
Your Honor's continuous efforts, gradually both the Japanese and American
insistences centering around the question of self-defense in connection with
the Tripartite Treaty have become clear. Now we might say that there exists
almost no division between our respective views. At any rate, we have been
taking it for granted that this is the case for some time. Our proposal of
September 25, which is a counter-proposal to the American proposal of June 21,
makes no reference to any exchange of notes, which means that we are refusing
to consider such an exchange. We are taking it for granted that the United
States, too, is eliminating this as a matter of course from the negotiations,
and we are continuing the negotiations on the assumption that there will be no
such exchange of notes. If, by any misadventure, the United States should say
that they will not leave out the proposal for exchange of notes, it will be
utterly and absolutely impossible for us to agree, so when you negotiate,
please be fully aware of this.
Army 24442 Trans. 11/6/41 (S)
[a] Not available.
(EXHIBITS OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 1 INTERCEPTED DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES SENT BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BETWEEN JULY l AND DECEMBER 8, 1941)