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Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Advancing the interests of Australia and Australians internationally

73 Sir Robert Craigie, U.K. Ambassador to Japan, to U.K. Foreign Office

Repeated to Mr R. G. Menzies, Prime Minister

Cablegram 1.579/24 TOKYO, 15 August 1940, 6.15 p.m.

Received 15 August 1940

IMMEDIATE SECRET

My telegram No. 1568. [1]

1. Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs [2] sent for Japanese Counsellor [3] this afternoon and informed him orally that the Emperor had signified to him his willingness for the exchange of diplomatic consultations [4] with Australia and that he would be pleased to receive Sir John Latham. [5] Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs added that the Japanese Government were much gratified at the nomination of so eminent a person as the first Minister.

2. The Japanese Consul-General, Sydney [6], has been informed.

3. It was agreed that publication should be emitted pending mutual arrangement as to the time.

1 Document 72.

2 Masayuki Tani.

3 J. L. Dodds, Japanese Counsellor at the U.K. Embassy in Tokyo.

4 This word was annotated 'representatives(?)'.

5 Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

6 Masatoshi Akiyama.

[AA:A981, AUSTRALIA 180, i]

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