893.102S/2358: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
473. Reference Department’s 455, November 7, 10 p.m.,68 and Shanghai’s 1216, November 7, 7 p.m. If you have not already made the approach requested in the Department’s 455, November 7, 10 p.m., please change the expression of hope in the last sentence of paragraph numbered 1 therein to an expression of regret and disappointment on the part of this Government. If you have already made the approach in question, please supplement it by saying that this Government is disappointed and regretful that the Japanese Government should have seen fit to undertake alteration of the status of the Chinese courts in the French Concession at Shanghai without the consent of the Chinese Government at Chungking and add that the Japanese Government will of course appreciate that its action in this respect tends to [Page 833] aggravate problems in the relations of the United States and Japan.69
Sent to Tokyo via Shanghai. Repeated to Chungking, Peiping.
- This telegram was similar to the Department’s telegram No. 694. November 7, 6 p.m., to the Chargé in France, p. 828.↩
- For action by the Embassy in Japan, see despatch No. 5158, November 20, from the Ambassador in Japan, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 892; for the Japanese reply on December 18, see ibid., p. 893.↩