90 — The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the Prime Minister of New Zealand — [Extract]
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90
The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
[Extract]
My telegram of 6 December [No. 89]. The following is the text of a further telegram from Lord Halifax dated 5 December:
‘I saw Hull this evening (Friday). He told me he had seen the Japanese this morning, who had given him a reply, which was brief, to the President's inquiry about troops in Indo-China. The substance of the reply was that the Chinese had been reinforcing opposite Indo-China and the Japanese felt primarily on that account obliged to add to their own strength. Hull had asked them whether it was really intended that the United States should believe in the defensive
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character of this Japanese move and a good deal more in the same sense. The conversation produced no result and the Japanese [group mutilated – informed?] Hull that their view had not moved an inch….1
1 Text omitted reported Halifax's discussion with Mr Hull on proposals that the President should send a message to the Emperor of Japan and that the United States should send Thailand an assurance of support.
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