Office of the Historian

793.94/6588: Telegram

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

Washington, April 20, 1934—6 p.m.

54. Your 72, April 20, 8 p.m. and 71 previous. Department has read text as printed in New York Herald Tribune and is informed by a press correspondent that Japanese Ambassador states he has official text which differs from Herald Tribune text by only a few words and that he is making translation and will call at Department with regard to the matter in due course. Correspondents have pressed Department for comment, but Department has declined, Japanese Government having communicated nothing to it, to make any comment. Department feels that neither you nor it should initiate at this stage any action indicative of interest or concern and approves penultimate sentence of your telegram 72.33

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  1. In informing the Embassy in the Soviet Union (as Department’s No. 47) and the Legation in China (as Department’s No. 123), the Department requested reports on reaction, official and unofficial, in those countries (793.94/6589).↩