Office of the Historian

893.516/693: Telegram

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

Washington, October 24, 1940—2 p.m.

418. Reference your 1027, October 22, 5 p.m. The Department concurs in your suggested course of action. It is assumed, of course, that in your communication to the Minister for Foreign Affairs you will not use the term “Chinese Government at Nanking”.27

Sent to Tokyo via Shanghai. Repeated to Peiping, Nanking.

Hull
  1. In telegram No. 1058, October 26, 7 p.m., the Ambassador in Japan reported that representations were made to the Japanese Foreign Minister on that date (893.516/698).↩