711.945/1061: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Woods) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 23—9:48 a.m.]
80. Minister of Foreign Affairs sent his private secretary to see me yesterday afternoon to say that he was sorry to hear that a news despatch had been telegraphed to the United States by American press correspondents purporting to report that following a decision reached yesterday at a meeting of the Cabinet, instructions had been sent to Hanihara “to use every proper means possible to induce President Coolidge to exercise his veto power when the immigration bill carrying Japanese exclusion clause finally reaches him for action.” Baron Matsui asks me to let you know this report is “entirely false and misleading” because he fears otherwise that an erroneous impression might be created in the American press that the Japanese were attempting to interfere in American domestic affairs.