Office of the Historian

711.94/919: Telegram

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

Tokyo, March 22, 1934—8 p.m.
[Received March 22—7:07 a.m.]

56. Department’s circular March 21, 5 p.m. Foreign Office spokesman this morning categorically denied newspaper reports from Washington and London to the effect that Ambassador Saito has been instructed to negotiate on the questions of exclusion of Japanese immigrants, recognition of Manchukuo and abandonment of naval and air bases in the Philippine Islands.

Grew