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The Foreign Office and Yoshida's Bid for Rapprochement with Britain in 1936–1937: a Critical Reconsideration of the Anglo-Japanese Conversation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

S. Olu Agbi
S. Olu Agbi
Affiliation:
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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The Historical Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 173 - 179
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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References

1 Hubbard, G. E., ‘The Far East’, Survey of International Affairs, i (1937), 167.Google Scholar G. E. Hubbard, who wrote in a mood which reflected the understandable resentment and frustration which the Hoare–Laval Agreement of 9 December 1935 had provoked in Britain, had concluded that ‘a situation was developing in July 1937 in regard to China which bore resemblance to that which would have resulted from the Hoare–Larval Agreement in respect of Italy and Abyssinia in 1935, had it been implemented; for an Anglo-Japanese rapprochement would likewise have tended to check a process of aggression by one country against another at the expense of consolidating the hold of the aggressor on what he had already gained at the time of the agreement’.

2 Clive to Eden, 12 March, 21 May 1936, F.O. 371/20279.

3 The Japan Advertiser, Tokyo, 22 May 1936.

4 Yoshida's Conversation with Eden, 17 July 1936, F.O. 371/20277.

5 Minutes by Thyme Henderson, 5 August 1936; Minute by Cadogan, 13 August 1936, F.O. 371/20277.

6 Yoshida's Conversation with Eden 17 July 1936, F.O. 371/20277.

7 Minute by R. L. Craigie, 10 August 1936, F.O. 371/20279.

8 Yoshida's Conversation with Vansittart, 23 September 1936, P.O. 371/20279.

9 Minute by Cadogan, 23 September 1939, P.O. 371/20279.

10 Yoshida's Conversation with Cadogan, 7 October 1936, F.O. 371/20277.

11 Crowley, J. B., Japan's quest for autonomy (Princeton 1966), pp. 289–300Google Scholar; Trotter, Ann, Britain and east Asia, 1933–37 (Cambridge 1975), pp. 190–1.Google Scholar

12 Yoshida's Conversation with Cadogan, 7 October 1936, F.O. 371/20277.

13 For Chamberlain's thinking on this issue in the mid-1930s see Agbi, O. S., British imperial defence and foreign policy in Asia and the Pacific, and the impact of Anglo-Japanese relations, 1937–41 (Ph.D. thesis, 10 1975, University of Birmingham), chapter 11.Google Scholar

14 T. L. Rowan (Treasury) to Mr Harvey (Foreign Office), 26 October 1936, F.O. 371/20279, transmitting Yoshida/s memorandum.

15 Trotter, Ann, Britain and east Asia (Cambridge 1975), p. 193.Google Scholar

16 Minute by Cadogan, 7 October 1936, F.O. 361/20277.

17 Minute by Pratt, 28 October 1936, F.O. 371/20277.

18 Minute by Orde, 30 October 1936, F.O. 371/20277.

19 Minute by Orde, 30 October 1936, F.O. 371/20277.

20 Clive to Eden, 6 November 1936, F.O. 371/20279.

21 Clive to Eden, 3 November 1936, F.O. 371/20279.

22 Eric Drummond to Eden, 23 November 1936, F.O. 371/20287.

23 Eden to Clive, 6 November 1936, F.O. 371/20279.

24 Yoshida to Eden, 7 November 1936, F.O. 371/20279.

25 Yoshida's Conversation with Craigie, 4 December 1936, F.O. 371/20279.

26 Yoshida's Conversation with Eden, 8 December, 22 December 1936, F.O. 371/20279.

27 Chamberlain to Eden, 13 January 1937, F.O. 371/21029, with minutes.

28 Yoshida's Conversation with Eden, 18 January; Yoshida's Conversation with Cadogan, 21 January; Yoshida to Cadogan, 23 January 1937, F.O. 371/21029.

29 Minute by Vansittart, 21January 1937, F.O. 371/21029.

30 Clive to Eden, 25 January 1937, F.O. 371/21029.

31 Minute by Vansittart, 21 January 1937, F.O. 371/21029.

32 Eden to Clive, 5 February; Yoshida's Conversation with Eden, 29 April 1937, F.O. 371/21029.