894.001H61/110: Telegram
The Chargé in Japan (Dickover) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 17—8:43 a.m.]
187. Department’s 119, September 16, 6 p.m. Department’s instructions carried out today. The Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs in reply said that he appreciated the interest of the Department in the matter, that he realized that the Department was doing everything possible under our laws but that he hoped that something could be done to prevent the news agencies from telegraphing the story of the mock trial to Japan as no feeling would be aroused here if the story could be kept out of the Japanese newspapers. He also said that such action would defeat the aims of the “American Friends of the Chinese People” which organization depended upon publicity for its existence.3
- The Department’s instruction No. 1112, October 1, to the Embassy in Japan stated that at the meeting on September 17 “the proceedings did not include a mock trial of the Emperor of Japan.” (894.001H61/112)↩