893.01 Manchuria/968: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 11—2:02 a.m.]
174. A press ban has been issued forbidding comment on the reports of the establishment of a monarchy in Manchukuo. Mr. Chao Hsin-po, the chief of the Legislative Yuan of Manchukuo, has been in Tokyo for several weeks and it is reported that he has drafted a constitution for Manchukuo modeled on that of Japan. It is also indicated that this ban is related to that reported in my telegram 168, October 27, 2 p.m. regarding current negotiations between Manchukuo and the administration of North China. The assumption is that the Japanese are trying to bring North China within an eventual Manchukuo monarchy.
Repeated to Peiping.