751.94/88: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
407. The American Embassy at Paris has telegraphed16 summaries of telegrams addressed on November 30 and December 12 by the French Ambassador at Tokyo to the French Foreign Office and a telegram dated December 7 from the French Foreign Office to the French Ambassador which were given by Chauvel to Bullitt to read. Chauvel took occasion to say that in future he intended to communicate to this Government full information in regard to French relations with China and Japan. As the French Ambassador at Tokyo may have acquainted you with the contents of these telegrams the Department is not sending you a summary thereof.
Chauvel in commenting expressed the view that there was no likelihood at the moment of a Japanese-Russian non-aggression pact and he believed that the efforts of certain elements in the Japanese Foreign Office which had previously supported the Anti-Comintern Pact but were now advocating an agreement with the Soviet Union would be fruitless so long as conversations continue between you and Admiral Nomura.
The Department has instructed the Ambassador in Paris to inform Chauvel that the Grew-Nomura conversations seem likely to continue over an extended period.