Office of the Historian

893.515/504

Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State (Phillips)

[Washington,] April 3, 1935.

The Japanese Ambassador handed me the accompanying statement79 which he said he desired to make of record; he reminded me that he had mentioned the matter orally during a recent visit, but added that the communication which he made to me today was merely a matter of form.

The Ambassador asked if there had been any developments with regard to financial assistance to China; he knew that the Japanese Ambassador in London and the Foreign Office had been discussing the matter, but he did not think that they had reached any conclusion. I replied that there had been no developments so far as we had been informed.

William Phillips
  1. Not printed; Mr. Saito had been instructed to state that the Japanese Government had made no inquiry of the British Government relating to the financial situation in China. (See memorandum by the Under Secretary of State, March 27, p. 564.)↩