Office of the Historian

861.77 Chinese Eastern/1369: Telegram

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

Tokyo, January 8, 1935—10 a.m.
[Received January 8—4:32 a.m.]

3. The Soviet Ambassador8 told me last night that the press reports of an early settlement of the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway are unfounded and have been announced from Japanese sources merely to strengthen Hirota’s9 position in the forthcoming sessions of the Diet. Some slight advance has been made in the negotiations but the question of guarantees of payment is still unsettled.

Grew
  1. Constantin Yurenev.↩
  2. Koki Hirota, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs.↩