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