894.20211 Tachibana, Itaru/33: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
405. Your 984, July 11, 4 p.m. It is suggested that, perhaps as reply to the statement of the Foreign Office official mentioned in your telegram under reference, you orally inform the Foreign Office in your discussion as follows:
This Government has recently undertaken in a special and unusually generous way to show its good-will toward preserving and promoting friendly relations between Japan and the United States. In the matter of the missionaries in Korea the Japanese Government cannot but be well aware of what action on its part would constitute evidence of reciprocal good-will. If the Japanese Government should decide to take such reciprocal action, the record of American-Japanese relations will show the fact of such action having been taken. If the Japanese Government decides not to evidence its good-will by taking such reciprocal action, that fact will also show clearly on the record.