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

693.002/823: Telegram

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

Tokyo, February 17, 1939—8 p.m.
[Received February 18—7:30 a.m.]

96. Department’s 17, January 19, 9 p.m., Canton Maritime Customs. The procedure envisaged in Department’s paragraph numbered 1 was followed in an interview with the Minister for Foreign Affairs today. The Minister replied that he took note of my statement but made no further comment.⁵⁶

Grew

56. See Ambassador Grew’s memorandum of February 17, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 747.