Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, General, Volume I

793.94/8832: Telegram

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

Tokyo, July 19, 1937—5 p.m.
[Received July 19—5:20 a.m.]

210. Department’s 216 [116], July 16, 7 p.m.³ The Japanese press carried an extensive summary of the Secretary’s statement, based on a Domei report. The Japan Advertiser printed the statement entire. No comment by Japanese officials or press has come to the attention of the Embassy except an editorial in the Nichi Nichi July 18 incidentally citing the Secretary’s statement, asserting that Japanese rights in the present North China incident rest solely on Boxer Treaty⁴ and that Japan is persistently refusing to aggravate the incident, and advising the Japanese Government to continue on its course.

A press ban dated July 14 forbids the publication of any item calculated to oppose war or to give the impression that Japanese policy is aggressive.

Grew

3. Not printed; it transmitted the statement by the Secretary of State, p. 699.
4. Signed at Peking, September 7, 1901, Foreign Relations, 1901, Appendix (Affairs in China), p. 312.