393.115/621: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 24—9:45 a.m.]
197. Department’s 107, April 22, 1 p.m. I took occasion at a luncheon today to mention this matter to Sawada for conveyance to Arita and also to Yoshizawa. Yoshizawa said that a considerable number of staff officers of the Japanese forces in China were recently in Tokyo for consultation and that in the attendant conferences there had been “some very plain speaking” to the effect that the bombing of American property in China must cease He said that these facts would be set forth in the Japanese reply which is now being drafted to our recent note on that subject.