Office of the Historian

393.115 Standard Vacuum oil Co./244: Telegram

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

Washington, June 1, 1940—3 p.m.

174. Your 398, June 1, 7 p.m.67 It is suggested that, in your discretion, you orally bring to the attention of the Foreign Minister the substance of Chungking’s 234, June 1, 9 a.m., and that, in so doing, you reread to him the pertinent portions of Chungking’s no. 438, July 13, noon, 1939.68 (See Department’s 202, July 15, 6 p.m., 1939.69)

Hull
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol i, p. 661.↩
  3. ibid, p. 662.↩