Office of the Historian

761.948/198: Telegram

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

Tokyo, November 17, 1939—2 p.m.
[Received November 17—4:06 a.m.]

610. Our 607, November 16, 6 p.m.97

1.
In conversation today with the Soviet Ambassador he told me that while the Foreign Minister had requested that the fishery negotiations be conducted in Tokyo, the Ambassador has referred the point to Moscow and that it has not yet been settled.
2.
Asahi’s report concerning the border delimitation conference is substantially correct.
3.
The Foreign Minister gave definite assurances that the final Japanese payment on the Chinese Eastern Railway would now be made.
4.
The question of oil and coal in North Sakhalin was not touched upon in Smetanin’s conversation with the Foreign Minister.

Repeated to Moscow, cipher text mailed to Peiping.

Grew
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