Office of the Historian

711.94/2427: Telegram

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

Tokyo, November 8, 1941—7 p.m.
[Received November 8—9:25 a.m.]

1772. In view of the unrestrained tone of the Japanese press during the past week in its numerous articles devoted to discussion of the United States and foreign policy, it is significant that the flow of invective appears suddenly to have ceased, judging by this morning’s newspapers. Aside from one relatively mild editorial in the Miyako regarding the Kurusu mission and Japanese-American conversations, the papers confine their comment to subjects which, from our point of view, are quite innocuous.

Grew