Wednesday, 15 September
Foreign Minister Song gave a talk in the United States. He said the Japanese repeatedly proposed peace terms to us, and recently the terms were even better, but of course we wouldn’t consider them. I borrowed the July 5th issue of Times Weekly Edition from the American Embassy. It went as follows: “Last June Churchill told Stalin in writing that ‘while we were preparing to make a landing in 1942, we could not promise to do so.’ In Moscow Amb. Standley suggested that the U.S. and Br. would appreciate some assurance from the U.S.S.R that the war time cooperation now working to defeat Hitler will continue until Japan is defeated.”