[Secret]
From: Tokyo
To: Washington
November 22, 1941
Purple (CA)
#815
The
Anti-Comintern Agreement runs out on the 24th, and for some time we have been
conferring with the signatories. It has been decided that this agreement shall
be in effect for five more years and that on the 25th in Berlin, Japan,
Germany, Italy, Manchukuo, Hungary, and Spain will all six sign the protocol.
Germany,
fighting Russia as she is, seems to be thinking about the propagandistic effect
of this signing. However, we, for several considerations, intend to handle the
matter circumspectly. You know we have Japanese-American relations to think
about. This is for your information.
Army 25140 Trans. 11/22/41 (S)
(EXHIBITS OF JOINT COMMITTEE , EXHIBIT NO. 1 INTERCEPTED DIPLOMATIC MESSAGES SENT BY THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BETWEEN JULY l AND DECEMBER 8, 1941)