TMT This telegram must be Tokyo closely paraphrased be- fore being communicated Dated September 6, 1939 to anyone. (br) Rec'd 7:45 a.m., 7 Secretary of State, Washington. 463, September 7, 6 p.m. (SECTION ONE) One. The Department's 276, September 6, 6 p.m. was not received until after my appointment with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and is not yet completely decoded. As the British Ambassador had informed me this morning that he proposed to express only the conventional remarks set for occasions of this character, I concluded not to make the statement to the Foreign Minister outlined in our number 459, September 6, 5 p.m. paragraph numbered 3. Two. As the Minister for Foreign Affairs received all the chiefs of mission in turn this afternoon my interview along with the others was necessarily brief. The Minister regretted that the relations between Japan and United States are not marked by that mutual confidence and friendship which he would wish them to be; he regretted that there had occurred incidents which had aroused American feeling against Japan notwithstanding the efforts being made by the Japanese Government to prevent the doing of |