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793.94/2463

The Military Attaché in Japan (McIlroy) to the Adjutant General of the Army (Bridges)4

Tokyo, October 21, 1931.

No. 190. Full General Tanaka,* Retired, calling at my house last night by appointment stated very emphatically “I ask you to cable your Secretary of War that the fighting men of Japan will not permit the League of Nations or America to intervene in any way that might weaken Japan’s position in Manchuria.”

MoIlroy
  1. Copy of radiogram transmitted to the Department of State by the War Department, October 21.↩
  2. Unable to identify definitely. Believed to be General Kunishige Tanaka who was Military Attaché in Washington & London, aide-de-camp to the Emperor, headed military delegates to Washington Conference. WCC. (Major Crane) [Footnote in the original by Maj. W. C. Crane.]↩