Messages to be Obtained 43. Thereafter OSHIMA had 2 or 3 requests similar to that referred to in the paragraph immediately above from Ribbentrop, and each time OSHIMA sent a wire to the Japanese Government in Tokyo. 44. After the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and the United States, OSHIMA sent messages to Tokyo regarding requests made by Ribbentrop and the German Army for Japan to join in the war against Russia. 45. Around the 1st or 2nd of December 1941, OSHIMA received a telegram from the Japanese Foreign Office regarding Germany joining Japan if hostilities broke out between Japan and the United States and proposing a No Separate Peace Pact. 46. In November 1941, OSHIMA sent a message to the Foreign Office to the effect that Hitler would be in favor of entering the conflict in case the United States-Japanese conflict started. 47. Around November 29 or 30, 1941, OSHIMA received word from Japan regarding Secretary Hull’s reply of November 26. 48. At the end of November or the first of December 1941, OSHIMA received a communication from the Foreign Office to the effect that the Japanese Government had issued an order to its Consulates in the United States to burn all but a very small portion of their codes. 49. Around December 3rd or 4th, 1941, OSHIMA sent a dispatch to the Japanese Government advising that he had informed Ribbentrop of the suggestions regarding the German-Japanese cooperation and a No Separate Peace Pact, in the event of war with the United States. 50. During the afternoon of December 7, 1941, OSHIMA received a dispatch from the Foreign Office requesting him to speed up negotiations. 51. On December 8, 1941, OSHIMA received official word that hostilities had started between Japan and the United States. 52. Between December 8 and 10, 1941, several messages and proposed drafts of a No Separate Peace Pact were sent to Tokyo by OSHIMA and replies thereto were received by OSHIMA from Tokyo. Similar messages passed between the German Foreign Office and its Embassy in Tokyo, as well as replies from the German Embassy in Tokyo addressed to the German Foreign Office in Berlin. 53. Sometime in early December 1941, OSHIMA received a dispatch from Japan to the effect that in case hostilities broke out between the United States and Japan, this information would be conveyed to him by tacking on the end of a regular broadcast originating in Tokyo, something about the weather. 54. Around December 16 or 17, 1941, Admirals Nomura and Yokoi and General Banzai received a wire from the Army and Navy Ministers and the Chiefs of Staff in Tokyo, stating that Japan desired a Military Alliance with Germany and indicated the points Japan wished brought up. G.O.HYDE 219