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740.0011 Pacific War/877

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

TOKYO, undated [97]

[Received December 10, 1941�2:35 a. m.]

The following note was received yesterday: "Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo, December8, 1941.Excellency, I have‑the honor to inform Your Excellency that there has arisen a state of war between Your Excellency's country and Japan beginning today. I avail, et cetera. Signed Shigenori Togo, Minister for Foreign Affaires."

GREW

[97] This telegram apparently was dispatched from Tokyo on December 9 through the Japanese Foreign Office after the Embassy had been placed incom�municado.

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