Office of the Historian

693.001/358: Telegram

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

Tokyo, October 13, 1938—9 p.m.
[Received October 13—9 a.m.]

666. Our 659, October 12, 2 p.m., second paragraph, American rights in China. Prince Konoye, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, received the Chiefs of Mission separately this afternoon. He stated to me that he had taken up with the Ministers of War and of the Navy the various points which I presented to him on October 3 (see our 640, October 3, 4 p.m.), and expressed the confident hope that we would shortly see improvements in the conditions in regard to which I had made representations.

Grew