811.3362i/16: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
[Paraphrase]
Washington, August 7,
1936—7 p.m.
102. Embassy’s telegram No. 163, July 28, 1 p.m. With regard to the suggestion made relative to the Alden, the Department assumes that there is no prospect that the Japanese authorities will take favorable action. In reply to a communication from the Japanese Embassy here,47 the Department is today returning an adverse answer47 to that Embassy’s request that the Japanese Government training ship Shintoku Maru be permitted to enter a Hawaiian harbor which is not listed as a port of entry.
Phillips