Office of the Historian

121.5493/152: Telegram

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

Washington, July 1, 1936—5 p.m.

86. Department’s 84, June 26, 2 p.m. On the basis of a telegram of June 30 from the Embassy at Peiping81 the Department on June 30 released to the press a statement as follows:

“The Department has received from the American Embassy at Peiping a telegram reporting that the Japanese Embassy there has given the American Embassy a memorandum making satisfactory reply to the memoranda which the American Embassy gave the Japanese Embassy on June 25 in regard to incidents which occurred in Peiping on June 21 and June 23 involving Japanese military personnel and American citizens and premises.”

Department is asking Peiping to forward you by mail the text of its telegram of June 30.

Phillips
  1. Embassy’s telegram, No. 330, June 30, 4 p.m., stated that the Japanese “expression of regret” conveyed to the American Embassy would not be given to the press by the Japanese Embassy as “it would hurt the feelings of the Japanese Military.”↩