Office of the Historian

811.001 Roosevelt Visit/2: Telegram

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

Washington, February 16, 1934—6 p.m.

16. The following telegram dated January 29, 1934, received by the President:

“Unanimous resolution Pan Pacific organization Japan cordially and unanimously invite you extend trip to Japan mailing you resolution in full7 Viscount Tadashiro Inouye Vice President Pan Pacific Association Japan Imperial Diet.”

You are requested, should no objection be perceived, to inform Viscount Inouye informally of the appreciation felt by the President for the courteous and hospitable message which he has thus transmitted on behalf of the Pan Pacific Association and of the interest with which the arrival of the text of the resolution mentioned in the telegram is awaited. You may at the same time inform Viscount Inouye that despite the President’s appreciation of the invitation the pressure of his public duties will not permit of his accepting but that appropriate acknowledgement of the invitation will be made upon the receipt of the text of the above mentioned resolution.

For your confidential information, no assumption should be made or cultivated either that the President will or that he will not make a trip [Page 636] next summer to Hawaii. To any queries in that connection, it is believed that you should reply that you are without any information on the subject.

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