Published in Pearl Harbor Hearings
Part 14 Pages 1254
 
                                             10, Downing Street,
                                                  Whitehall.
 
 
              DRAFT OF PARALLEL COMMUNICATIONS TO
                    THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT.
 
DECLARATION BY U.S. GOVERNMENT THAT:
     1. Any further encroachment by JAPAN in the South West Pacific would produce a
situation in which the U.S. Government would be compelled to take counter measures even
though these might lead to war between the U.S. and JAPAN.
     2. If any Third Power becomes the object of aggression by JAPAN in consequence of such
counter measures or of their support of them, the President would have the intention to seek
authority from Congress to give aid to such Power.
DECLARATION BY H.M.G.
         Same as above, mutatis mutandis, the last phrase reading:-