893.7961/38: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 16—7:58 a.m.]
605. Department’s 317, September 14, 3 p.m., and our 604, September 16, 4 p.m., Pan American Airways. The Counselor of the Embassy called this afternoon on the director of the American Bureau of the Foreign Office and after delivering the note referred to in our 604 handed Yoshizawa an informal letter in which there were included [Page 478] statements closely following the text of paragraph 1 of the Department’s telegram under reference.
With reference to the second paragraph of the Department’s telegram an oral statement along the lines desired was made as under instruction.