711.94/2422: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 7—6:54 p.m.]
1765. Department’s 716, November 5, 7 p.m. Meeting the Foreign Minister this afternoon informally at the Soviet Embassy’s reception, I took occasion to offer the informal comment authorized. I furthermore said that the truculent and aggressive substance and tone of the Japanese press toward the United States at present was, in my personal opinion, doing immense harm to American-Japanese relations.87 Mr. Toshi Go, editor of the Japan Times and Advertiser, later told me that the Foreign Minister had repeated to him what I had said. [Page 574] In the last few days I have said the same thing to several prominent Japanese. Matsumoto, head of Domei, told me tonight, after a similar talk with him, that we may expect an immediate change in the tone of the Japanese press.
- See also memorandum by the Ambassador in Japan, November 7, 1941, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. ii, p. 705.↩