The Archive · 1941

Franco-Thai Accord

FAR EASTERN CRISIS

Complete Agreement of Views Said Reached After Arrival of Final Instructions from Vichy IERMS of the Japanese medi the Thailand-French Indo-China border dispute, will be initialled tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock at the official residence of the Foreign Minister, Mr, Yosuke Matsuoka, as complete agreement of views was reached during an hour's meeting among French, Thai, and Japanese delegates.

The meeting, which was held at the official residence of the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Chuichi Ohashi, was devoted to discussion of terminology. Delegates at the meeting were Prince Varnvaidyakara Varavarn for Thailand, M. Charles Arsene-Henry for France, and Mr. Hajime Matsumiya for Japan.

Immediately after the meeting, the drawing up of formal documents to be signed at 4 o'clock in the after~ noon tomorrow was launched by the Japanese Foreign Office stall under the direction of Mr. Shunich! Matsu-more, Director of the Treaty Bureau.

The momentous conference between delegates of the three countries was called following the meeting today noon of M. Arsene-Henry and Mr, Matsuoka, to arrange the procedure for signing terms of the Japanese mediation proposal.

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