761.9411/59a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
Washington, December 5,
1939—2 p.m.
385. A press despatch under Tokyo date line December 4 to the New York Times states inter alia that “A non-aggression pact is not on the program for the settlement of Japanese-Soviet differences, Yakachiro Suma, Foreign Office spokesman, stated today in answer to questions by foreign correspondents.”
Please investigate and telegraph as to accuracy of statement attributed to Suma.
Welles