Office of the Historian

793.94/7107: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)

Washington, June 22, 1935—3 p.m.

95. Ambassador Bullitt reports98 that on June 19 Litvinov stated to him in the course of an extended conversation that he (Litvinov) was greatly disturbed by the actions of the Japanese military in North China, and that, according to information from Soviet sources in Tokyo, such actions were very unpopular in Japan. Litvinov expressed the opinion that some action on the part of Great Britain or the United States in relation to recent developments in North China would cause Japanese popular opinion to become actually hostile to the Japanese army.

Hull
  1. Telegram No. 244, June 19, not printed.↩