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The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 10.]
Sir: On passing through Tokyo today en route from his post at Seoul to Vancouver, Consul General Davis told me that in his farewell interview with Lieutenant General Kawashima, in command of the troops in Chosen, the General spoke with enthusiasm of the great progress and development in the arts of civilization which had taken place in Japan and added his hope that the oppressed and suffering people of Manchuria, China and Siberia would soon be enabled to share these Heaven-sent gifts. The foregoing is not a precise quotation but conveys the sense of the General’s remarks as repeated to me by Mr. Davis. They represent, perhaps, the thoughts of a certain type of Japanese military mind.
Respectfully yours,