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Memorandum by the Secretary of State
[Washington,] May 26, 1932.
During the call of the Japanese Ambassador he referred to the rumors of impending hostilities between Russia and Japan. I told him that I had heard them while I was at Geneva. The Ambassador suggested that they were spread there by the Russians because they wished to get me to recognize their Government; that such rumors were nonsense and that he could assure me, on behalf of his Government, that the Government had issued instructions now against sending further troops north into proximity with the Russian frontier.
H[enry] L. S[timson]