Office of the Historian

893.61331/232: Telegram

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

Tokyo, November 13, 1940—10 a.m.
[Received November 14—8:55 a.m.]

1143. Peiping’s 430, November 6, 4 p.m., to Department.32 In view of the Foreign Minister’s expressed desire and intention to obviate [Page 548] as far as practicable interference on the part of Japanese authorities with American rights and interests in China,33 does the Department wish me to bring to Mr. Matsuoka’s attention either in my next interview or by letter the situation with regard to the China tobacco crop set forth in telegram under reference.

Sent to the Department via Peiping.

Sent to the Department. Repeated to Chungking, Shanghai, Tientsin, Tsingtao.

Grew
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See telegram No. 1125, November 11, noon, from the Ambassador in Japan, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 702.↩