793.94 Commission/321
Memorandum by the Secretary of State
During the call of the Japanese Ambassador he alluded to the Manchurian Commission and said that he supposed that I had been in constant communication with General McCoy. I said no, that I hadn’t and I regarded General McCoy as acting as an independent investigator; that I had not sent any communication to him since he left for Manchuria, neither had he written to me, and that I should be glad if the Ambassador would make that clear to his Government. I told the Ambassador that I had heard through my own Ambassador in Tokyo various reports of interviews which the Commission had had with members of the Japanese and Chinese Governments, but that was all that I had heard and I supposed that the Ambassador, himself, had received information as to these reports for they had, in part at least, appeared in the press.