Office of the Historian

793.94/8783: Telegram

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

Tokyo, July 16, 1937—noon.
[Received July 16—12:58 a.m.]

204. The Naval Attaché was requested by the Navy Department to submit his own estimate of the North China situation and yesterday he telegraphed his report setting forth consensus of opinion of the entire Embassy.18

Grew
  1. It reported that the Japanese Government, including the Army, was in apparent agreement on a decisive course of action, probably meaning actual hostilities in North China, if the Chinese did not accept the Japanese proposals for settlement of recent clashes, and that the situation was serious though not beyond amicable settlement.↩