893.01 Manchuria/989: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
Tokyo, January 24, 1934—11
a.m.
[Received January 23—11:38 p.m.]
[Received January 23—11:38 p.m.]
16. Department’s 7, January 22, 6 p.m. I have conveyed to Hirota the facts as stated by the Department in paragraph 1. Amau has proposed to make rectification to the press today. The Tokyo correspondent of the Associated Press informed me that the report of Hornbeck’s speech came from the Associated Press in the United States [Page 17] to Rengo precisely as published here. The distortion, therefore, does not appear to have occurred in Japan.
Grew