893.6363 Manchuria/30: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 8—3:27 a.m.]
174. British Ambassador informs me that when the British Consul General in Mukden last month made representations concerning the projected petroleum sales monopoly to the Director of the Political Bureau at Hsinking, invoking the provisions of certain treaties, the latter said that “his government considered that the failure of the powers to recognize the new state absolved them from the obligations voluntarily assumed in the notification to the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of foreign states March 12, 1932.”15 The Consul General pointed out that the “Manchukuo” statement was unconditional to which Kanai replied: “How can a government which is deemed to have no existence be expected to observe international treaties?”
This telegram supplements my despatch No. 921 of August 6.16
Repeated to Peiping.
- See telegram from Hsieh Chieh-shih, Foreign Relations, 1932, vol. iii, p. 579.↩
- Not printed.↩