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Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

51 Department of External Affairs to U.K. Embassy, Tokyo

Cablegram unnumbered 22 March 1939,

SECRET

Please convey the following to Colonel Lloyd. [1]

Desire you furnish immediately any references or brief extracts of anti- Australian sentiment without relation to provocative acts by Australia made or published in Japan recently. Consul-General Japan [2] is protesting against anti-Japanese attitude here and alleges no statements made in Japan without provocation such as embargo on iron-ore or boycott of scrap iron, etc.

1 Lt Cot E.E. Longfield Lloyd, Australian Government Commissioner in Japan.

2 Torao Wakamatsu.

[AA: A981, JAPAN 101, ii]

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