Office of the Historian

793.94/6612: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)

Washington, April 26, 1934—5 p.m.

57. Your 77, April 26, 5 p.m. Yesterday the Japanese Ambassador gave us confidentially a text in translation of Hirota’s instruction to Japanese Minister to China.57 Amau’s statement of April 17, as reported in Herald Tribune text, seems substantially a paraphrase of that instruction.

Hull
  1. See letter dated April 25, with enclosures, from the Japanese Ambassador Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 228.↩