811.3394/265: Telegram

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

139. Reference, your 221, July 22, 5 p.m., and previous.

1.
For your information. Commander-in-Chief48 recommends through the Navy Department that in view of the situation in Far East this Department notify Japanese Government that proposed visit of the Commander-in-Chief to Japan be indefinitely postponed. Both Departments approve.
2.
Please appropriately inform Foreign Office that visit will be indefinitely postponed.
Hull
  1. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Commander in Chief, U. S. Asiatic Fleet, at Shanghai.