500.A15A5/440a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
Washington, July 13,
1935—4 p.m.
106. Our Embassy at Berlin was told in strict confidence by the German Ministry of Marine that Japan objects to German participation in the next Naval Conference on the pretext that this would increase the representation of the white races as against the yellow. Have you any confirmatory information?
Phillips