893.6363 Manchuria/93: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
198. Your 262, November 27, 6 p.m. Department has given careful consideration to every item of your excellent summary of the situation and your views as expressed therein and, provided you do not wish to offer amendments as to substance or phraseology, desires that you hand to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs an aide-mémoire as follows:
[Here follows text of aide-mémoire of November 30, 1934, printed in Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, volume i, page 143.]
Although the text of our aide-mémoire contains no specific statement approximating the concluding clause of the last British aide-mémoire, it does emphasize that we attribute definite responsibility in connection with this matter to the Japanese Government. We shall continue to keep in mind the statements made in paragraph 5 of your telegram under reference but it seems to us best not to include in the aide-mémoire any statement in that connection.
In presenting the aide-mémoire, you should emphasize orally the seriousness with which the American Government views the subject under discussion. You may also state the emphatic denial of the American Government that the oil situation either in Manchuria or in Japan is in any way whatsoever linked with our efforts or our procedure at the London naval conversations.
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Inform your British colleague.