793.94/4004: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 6—10:05 a.m.]
9. Massigli states that a telephone message from Paris brings the information that the Japanese have definitely refused points 2 and 5 of the project urged by the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany and that London is much concerned over the possibility of the Inukai-Yoshizawa Cabinet being swept away and replaced by an openly military Cabinet.
Not only Massigli but several others active on the Council asked me my Government’s views as to the next step assuming that when the message was drafted the possibility of refusal must have been contemplated and the next step envisaged.
If the Department could give me urgently its views on this question it would be useful to have them before the views of the Council become fixed and while their thoughts are still in a formative state.
The Department might also think it of value to send me from time to time an indication of the attitude of the American press to this problem.