Office of the Historian

893.6363 Manchuria/198: Telegram

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

Washington, May 4, 1935—2 p.m.

75. Your 94, May 2, 5 p.m.5 For your information. According to Standard-Vacuum, New York office of Asiatic Petroleum received from London on May 2 a telegram to the effect that it has also been decided in London that the Asiatic Petroleum should in the first place apply only to Manchuria and should not approach Tokyo unless it later becomes necessary to make a claim.

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  1. Not printed.↩