793.94/15587a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan ( Grew )
13. The New York Times of January 8 contains a United Press story under Tokyo date line January 8 to the effect that it is understood that the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs is prepared to resume his discussions with you and to make in the course of such discussions a statement to you in regard to the Japanese Government’s decision to sponsor the setting up of a new regime in China under Wang Ching-wei. Should the Foreign Minister in the course of conversation make such a statement to you, it is suggested that it would be advisable for you to express the view that the proposed regime, if set up, would seem to be an artificial creation and that, judged by the experience of regimes established during recent years under Japanese auspices in various parts of China, we cannot escape the conclusion that the proposed new regime would seem to be designed primarily to serve the special purposes of Japan and would operate toward depriving the people and the Government of the United States, and the people and governments of other third countries, of enjoyment—or even opportunity to enjoy—various long established rights in China which are legally and justly theirs. (See Department’s telegram 349, November 13, 8 p.m., paragraph 2.)39