Office of the Historian

893.102S/2297: Telegram

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

Tokyo, September 27, 1940—8 p.m.
[Received September 27—9:26 a.m.]

907. My 905, September 27, 6 p.m.53 The Vice Minister has just called me on the telephone and said that the Foreign Minister had read my letter and authorized me to inform my Government that there is no truth in the report that Japanese armed forces propose forcibly to occupy the French Concession in Shanghai within the immediate future. Mr. Ohashi said “there is nothing in it.”

Sent to the Department, repeated to Shanghai.

Grew
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