Office of the Historian

793.94/10754: Telegram

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

Washington, October 27, 1937—6 p.m.

270. Your 481, October 20, 4 p.m. According to an aide-mémoire of October 26 from the British Embassy the British Government has instructed the British Ambassador to make further representations in regard to the use of the International Settlement as a base for Japanese military operations.

You are authorized after consultation with your British colleague to inform the Japanese Government72 that this Government continues to hold the views as set forth in our 245, October 2, 3 p.m. (your aide-mémoire of October 4).73

Hull
  1. The British and American Embassies carried out similar instructions on October 27 and 28 respectively. For the American aide-mémoire, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 404.↩
  2. For American aide-mémoire of October 4, see ibid., p. 378.↩