793.94/5785b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
Washington, January 18, 1933—1
p.m.
5. According to the American press President-elect Roosevelt on January 17 wrote out, in reply to a question, a statement reading as follows:
“Any statement relating to any particular foreign situation must, of course, come from the Secretary of State of the United States.
I am, however, wholly willing to make it clear that American foreign policies must uphold the sanctity of international treaties. That is the cornerstone on which all relations between nations must rest”.
Stimson