No. 338

FROM: Moscow (Tatekawa)

TO: Washington (Koshi) Action Germany and Italy as Circular # 118.

April 13, 1941

No number.

From Foreign Minister Matsuoka:

In these conversations no reference was made either by them or by us to any relationship between the Jap-Soviet neutrality pact and the Japanese-German-Italian Tripartite alliance, nor to the effect of either upon the other. We merely assumed that the neutrality