894.00/594a: Telegram

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

28. Department assumes that Embassy is preparing and will in due course forward by mail to the Department for purposes of present [Page 736] study and future reference a comprehensive account, as authentic as possible and citing where possible official or authoritative statements, of last week’s coup. In your preparation of this, Department suggests that, in view of highly conflicting press reports regarding circumstances of attack on Okada and his reappearance, of action taken against insurgents, and of fate of insurgent leaders, special attention be given to those subjects.

Hull