693.002 Manchuria/287: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 19—6:10 a.m.]
283. Consul at Dairen reports that he has frequent occasion to communicate with the “Manchukuo” customs officials at Dairen. He desires to know in what style he should address them. He informs me he has addressed only one communication to the customs. It was a third-person note. This cannot continue indefinitely, he feels, if the business of the Consulate is to be satisfactorily handled.
My own feeling is that the Consul might address the “Commissioner of Customs, Dairen” without other designation. I shall not so instruct him, however, without the Department’s approval.