711.008 North Pacific/225: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
Tokyo, November 30, 1937—6
p.m.
[Received November 30—10:55 a.m.]
[Received November 30—10:55 a.m.]
581. Department’s 320, November 29, 2 p.m.
- 1.
- I received last week an intimation that the Foreign Minister is actively interesting himself in a prompt and favorable reply. In view of that fact and of the attention which the press has been giving my calls at the Foreign Office with regard to problems in China, I exercised the discretion which the Department gave me and did not personally call on the Foreign Minister to present the views of the Department as set forth in the telegram under reference. However, I did embody those views in a personal letter to the Foreign Minister which was left today by a member of my staff with a responsible Foreign Office official.
- 2.
- The latter said informally that the Foreign Office fully shares the Department’s feeling that something must be done at once. He added that reply would be made as soon as the Japanese fishery authorities can decide whether a decision responsive to the desires of our Government would not adversely affect Japanese fishery interests in other quarters, notably in Siberian waters a new convention with regard to which is now under negotiation with the Soviet Government.
Grew