894.628/147: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
37. Embassy’s despatch No. 1558, November 20, 1935.90 The Department of Commerce has received reports from unofficial sources [Page 943] that Japanese vessels have obtained licenses for salmon fishing in waters adjacent to Alaska and are now engaged in such fishing. It is believed that circulation of such reports might most effectively be discouraged by the Department of Commerce making known to Alaskan salmon fishery interests the assurances given to you last year by the Foreign Office as reported in your despatch above cited.
Please communicate the foregoing to the Foreign Office and inquire whether there would be objection to the procedure above outlined, reporting reply of the Foreign Office promptly by telegraph.
- Not printed; see telegram No. 208, November 12, 1935, 5 p.m., from the Chargé in Japan, ibid., 1935, vol. iii, p. 1078.↩