Office of the Historian

711.942/381: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)

[Paraphrase]
Washington, December 19, 1939—6 p.m.

404. Supplementary to and in amplification of the Department’s telegram No. 402, December 18, 2 p.m. Although the statement of the United States Government’s position, transmitted in Department’s telegram No. 402, deals only with the commercial aspects of our relations with Japan, that fact does not signify that the United States Government has in any way modified its position with regard to other aspects of Japanese-American relations. The United States Government continues, of course, to adhere to the full import of its position as stated on numerous occasions in its communications to the Japanese Government, and especially in its communications to the Japanese Government dated October 6, 1938, and December 31 [30], 1938.4

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  1. Vol. i, pp. 785 and 820.↩