793.94/6856: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 4—7:58 a.m.]
23. On January 30 and February 3 the Tokyo correspondent of the New York Times telegraphed analyses of the Sino-Japanese situation that merit attention. I am aware that he has consulted high Foreign Office and other officials as well as businessmen. His information is usually accurate, although in this case he seems not to stress sufficiently the economic aspects of the situation, which may prove to be the determining factor in any arrangement reached in the present conversations.
The Foreign Office here continues to state that Japan is making no demands on China at the present time.