500.A15A5/293: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation (Davis)
43. Your 55, November 30, 9 p.m.27 The press here is giving considerable space to so-called new Japanese proposals.
Inasmuch as the Japanese are making these so-called new proposals to the British and as these proposals as indicated would not be acceptable to us and, according to every indication given you to date by the British delegates, should not be acceptable to the British, would it not be advisable for you to suggest to the British that they dispose adversely of these proposals without permitting to develop a situation where it might be made to appear that, the British having shown themselves [Page 378] inclined to make a compromise, we alone are non-receptive and bear the onus of opposition.
We feel that at this stage all questions of tactics and of impressions given the public are becoming increasingly important.
- Ibid., p. 267; see also telegram No. 58, December 1, 1934, from the Chairman of the American delegation, ibid., p. 267.↩