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The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the Prime Minister of New Zealand

thailand.

My immediately preceding telegram.

1. The Prime Minister is proposing in accordance with President Roosevelt's suggestion (see my telegrams [No. 80] and [No. 87], paragraph 7) to send an immediate personal message to the Thai Prime Minister warning of imminent Japanese danger, urging him to fight if attacked, and saying we will come to his assistance to the utmost of our power. The text has been telegraphed to Washington for the President's observation.

2. In the meantime, His Majesty's Minister at Bangkok has been authorised to let the Thai Prime Minister know privately that we are in consultation with the United States Government in regard to warning Japan in the sense he has been pressing.