793.94/9204: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
141. Your 247, August 6, 4 p.m. American press has carried accounts of statement made on August 6 by Hirota to the Diet to the effect that the American Government was carefully guarding against reported attempts by Chinese to enlist American aviators.
The Department feels that your prompt initiative has served effectively to dispose of reports which might have been a source of harm to relations between the United States and Japan.
Your statement and Hirota’s subsequent statement accord with the facts. You may in your discretion so inform Hirota.