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Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume III

46 — The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the acting Prime Minister of New Zealand — [Extract]

46
The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs to the acting Prime Minister of New Zealand
[Extract]

4 August 1941

Circular telegram. My Circular telegram M.207.3 Thailand.

On 1 August His Majesty's Minister at Bangkok was instructed to return an interim reply to the message from the Thai Prime Minister (my telegram of 1 August [No. 44], paragraph 4) to the effect that we were in consultation with the United States Government as to measures to restrain further Japanese encroachments, but that our attitude was bound to be affected by the degree of independence which the Thai Government displayed in their dealings with the Japanese. He was also authorised to say that we were proceeding with arrangements for the delivery of oil on the scale previously contemplated (my telegram D.469)4 without waiting for signature of the economic agreement, but that the continuance of these arrangements would obviously depend on the general attitude of the Thai Government….5

3 Not published. Reported a further appeal by the Thai Prime Minister for support from the United States and the United Kingdom against ‘intense Japanese pressure’.

4 Not published.

5 The text of telegraphic instructions sent to the British Ambassador at Washington has been omitted. These were to inform the United States Government of the instructions sent to His Majesty's Minister at Bangkok, and to invite its views on the policy to be adopted towards Thailand.