Office of the Historian

711.94/1059a: Telegram

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

Washington, February 10, 1936—7 p.m.

19. For your information. When asked this afternoon to comment on Senator Pittman’s speech in the Senate today,74 the Secretary said, only:

“I have not yet had opportunity to read Senator Pittman’s speech. Senator Pittman occupies an important position in the legislative branch of the Government. There has been as regards his speech no consultation or collaboration between him and me. There is no reason why I should make any comment.”

Hull
  1. Speech on Japanese policy in China by Key Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Congressional Record, vol. 80, pt. 2, p. 1703.↩