741.9411/221: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:52 p.m.]
11. The Japanese press has again been featuring rumors to the effect that the Anglo-Japanese alliance, or something akin to it, is to be revived in the near future. I learn that the British Ambassador yesterday told the local correspondent of the New York Times16 that there was not a word of truth in these rumors, so far as the British Embassy was aware, and he said that these rumors were placing him [Page 13] (the Ambassador) in a most embarrassing position, as he had been assuring the American Ambassador of his own, and he was convinced of his Government’s, desire to work in complete frankness with the Americans; that these rumors made it appear that he had been lying, and he urged Mr. Byas not to report them to New York because they had no basis in fact.
- Hugh Byas.↩