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793.94/9021: Telegram

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

Tokyo , July 28, 1937—6 p.m.
[Received July 28—6:45 a.m.]

231. My 229, July 28, 5 [4] p.m.

1.
Domei has issued a statement to the effect that I called this morning on the Minister for Foreign Affairs to make inquiry with [Page 286] regard to the situation in North China. I assume that the Minister for Foreign Affairs has in this instance deemed it expedient not to disclose the actual purpose of my call (see my telegram No. 223, July 22, 7 p.m., paragraph 6). I shall not issue correction to the press unless directed by you to do so.
2.
Fleisher2 has telephoned to New York the text of a statement issued this morning by the Foreign Office setting forth reasons for abandonment by Japan of hope for peaceful settlement of the North China incident.

Repeated to Nanking.

Grew
  1. Wilfred Fleisher, Tokyo correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune.↩