Office of the Historian

793.94/6629: Telegram

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

Tokyo, April 30, 1934—1 p.m.
[Received April 30—1:40 a.m.]

84. My 83, April 29, 7 p.m.80 Despite previous announcement by the Foreign Office spokesman that an official statement clarifying Japan’s policy in China would be issued this afternoon, Amau said at the press conference this morning that no such statement would be issued and that he considered the affair “a closed incident”. No mention was made of the American aide-mémoire81 presented to the Minister by me last evening.

Grew
  1. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 232.↩
  2. See telegram No. 59, April 28, 7 p.m., to the Ambassador in Japan, ibid., p. 231.↩