The Archive · 1940

At Foreign Office

Tokyo, July 31.

The Netherlands Minister to Japan, Gen. J. C., Pabst, called on Mr. Haruhiko Nishi, Director of the European and Asiatic Affairs Bureau of the Foreign Office, today and sought information on the choice of the special Japanese envoy to be sent to the Netherlands East Indies.

Mr. Shuichi Sake, former Japanese Ambassador to Poland, had been chosen by the Yonai Cabinet but with the change of Government, it is expected that another choice will be made. 4

Gen. Pabst was understood to have expressed approval in principle to the proposal to send a special Japanese envoy to the Netherlands East Indies—Domei.

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