Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, The Far East, Volume III

741.61/610: Telegram

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

Tokyo, May 16, 1939—7 p.m.
[Received May 16—11:10 a.m.]

227. My British and French colleagues have recently told the Foreign Minister under instructions that in the present negotiations with Soviet Russia³⁹ their respective Governments have made no commitments applying to the Far East but that if Japan now contracts a general alliance with the totalitarian states their Governments may be obliged to reconsider their position in this respect.

Grew

39. For correspondence on British and French negotiations with the Soviet Union, see vol. i , section entitled “Anglo-French-Soviet Negotiations …”