893.6363 Manchuria/55: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
Washington, October 26, 1934—6
p.m.
183. Reference Peiping’s 483, October 24, noon, and 484, October 24, 1 p.m. (which Peiping is repeating to you) and Embassy’s 236, October 26, 6 p.m.
- 1.
- Following the receipt of Peiping’s telegrams, the Department has given consideration to the question of the advisability and desirability of making, as suggested in paragraph 2 of Peiping’s telegram of October 24, noon, further representations in regard to the proposed Manchukuo oil monopoly, but has not yet reached a decision.
- 2.
- For your information. Following the appearance in the American press of an Associated Press despatch from Tokyo of October 24 in regard to the projected Manchukuo oil monopoly and the oil situation in Japan, the Under Secretary at the press conference on October 25 orally gave to correspondents in response to inquiries background information. The American press has carried a number of articles and editorials in regard to these questions.
- 3.
- Peiping informed.
Phillips