Office of the Historian

393.1163 Am 3/630: Telegram

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

Tokyo, October 6, 1941—7 p.m.
[Received October 9—3:27 a.m.]

1576. Department’s 627, September 29, 11 a.m. [p.m.] Japanese violent attack against American Catholic Missionaries in Kwangtung. After preparing a strongly worded first person note dated October 3, enclosing with it a copy of most of Bishop Paschang’s letter dated August 5 to the American Consul General at Canton, I sent directly to the Foreign Office with a personal letter referring to his expressed wish to have such cases brought to his personal attention, and asking his intercession in preventing future similar incidents. See my telegram no. 1249 dated August [15, 10 p.m.]67 and despatch no. 5791, of August 18.68

Sent to the Department via Peiping. Peiping please repeat to Chungking and Canton.

Grew
  1. Not printed, but see Ambassador Grew’s memorandum of August 15, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 911.↩
  2. Not printed; for its enclosures, dated August 15 and 16, see ibid., pp. 911 and 913.↩