Office of the Historian

793.94/11282: Telegram

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

Washington, November 24, 1937—6 p.m.

315. The Department is informed that the Standard Oil Company of New York has received a telegram from its Shanghai representative stating that its Shanghai representative has learned that Japan will declare war on China on December 1.

The Department would welcome your comments.52

Hull
  1. A similar telegram, No. 576, November 24, 6 p.m., was sent to the Consul General at Shanghai.↩