Office of the Historian

393.1163M56/251: Telegram

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

Washington, October 23, 1940—noon.

417. Your 999, October 16, 1 p.m.43 In the light of your recent approach to the Foreign Minister with regard to the general question of the bombings of American properties, the Department leaves to your discretion the question of the character of representations which you may consider appropriate for the purpose of completing the record in this instance.44

Hull
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. i. e., the bombing of Methodist Mission property at Chungking on September 13.↩