Office of the Historian

793.94/10274: Telegram

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

Tokyo, September 27, 1937—7 p.m.
[Received September 27—9:01 a.m.]

423. Our 421, September 27, 5 p.m. As indicative of one of the considerations entering into the decision to cease bombing of Nanking, we are informed by an entirely reliable Japanese source that the Foreign Office has been “deluged” with telegrams from Japanese diplomatic missions in various parts of the world, including the United States, reporting on movements to boycott Japanese goods.

Repeated to Shanghai.

Grew