Office of the Historian

711.94/1136: Telegram

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

Tokyo, June 7, 1937—2 p.m.
[Received June 7—6:08 a.m.]

151. 1. In my initial interview today with the new Foreign Minister,22 Hirota asked me to tell the President and yourself that his [Page 110] guiding policy in conducting Japan’s relations with the United States would be based on the exchange of messages with you in 1934.23

2. With regard to the Sino-Japanese affairs he said that his former “three points” were too abstract for present circumstances. He therefore proposed to find concrete solutions of the various outstanding problems between Japan and China.

Repeated to Peiping.

Grew
  1. Koki Hirota returned to this post in the Cabinet of Prince Fumimaro Konoye on June 4.↩
  2. Exchanged on February 21 and March 3, 1934, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, pp. 127–129.↩