Office of the Historian

793.94/9588: Telegram

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

Tokyo, August 23, 1937—1 p.m.
[Received August 23—1:20 a.m.]

297. Department’s No. 159, August 21, 11 p.m., Tsingtao. Department’s instructions received this morning were carried out in a formal note to the Minister for Foreign Affairs which I delivered to [Page 458] the Vice Minister shortly after noon. No alterations were made in the Department’s text. The Vice Minister made no comment except to say that the matter would be studied.

Grew