393.115/1034: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 1—4:40 p.m.]
1246. In my interview with the Foreign Minister today, he prefaced our conversation by expressing his apologies for his unavailable [unavoidable?] delay in replying to previous representations respecting Japanese interference with American rights and interests in China. He said that he had started a full investigation of these cases but had been ill with threatened pneumonia for some time. He, however, expected to make a full report to me during the coming week.44 I replied that I would be interested in receiving his report but that concrete results would carry more weight than explanations or assurances for the future.
[Page 555]Sent to the Department via Shanghai. Shanghai please repeat to Chungking and Peiping.
- For the Ambassador’s memorandum of his conversation with the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, December 17, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 895; for oral statements by the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, December 17, see ibid., pp. 895 and 899.↩