893.6363 Manchuria/36: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
149. Your 185, August 23, 10 a.m.,24 and previous, especially 168, August 3, 6 p.m.
While giving careful consideration to the thoughtful suggestions made in your 182, August 20, 3 p.m., the Department inclines to the view that the American Government should not omit reply to the informal memorandum of the Japanese Foreign Office of August 2.25 The Department has examined with approval the British Government’s reply, and it seems to us that this Government should also reply, for the purposes, inter alia, of keeping the record clear as between ourselves and the Japanese and demonstrating willingness to cooperate as between ourselves and the British. Also, the placing on record at this time of a reply might be useful in connection with the question of possible implementing of the suggestions made in your 182, August 20, 3 p.m.
Unless you perceive substantial reason for further discussion of this question and/or of the text submitted below, in which case inform the Department promptly of your views, please give or send promptly, in such manner as you may consider appropriate, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, an informal memorandum as follows:
[Here follows text of memorandum dated August 31, 1934, printed in Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, volume I, page 133.]
Inform Department and Peiping of action taken.
- See footnote 20, p. 724.↩
- Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 132.↩