793.94/6678: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 12—6:48 a.m.]
92. I am informed by my French colleague that about 10 days ago the French Foreign Office handed to Ambassador Sato a memorandum setting forth the French Government’s views on Japan’s China policy. The text or the substance of the memorandum has not been published here and my French colleague has not received the text but he tells me that it has caused embarrassment to the Japanese Government because it specifically calls attention to the stipulations of article 7 of the Nine-Power Treaty, with which the recent statements of Japanese policy would appear to conflict. My French colleague thinks that when the French newspapers containing the text of the memorandum arrive in Japan it will be published and will cause a reopening of the discussion of Japan’s policy.
Repeated to Peiping by mail.