Office of the Historian

793.94 Conference/257: Telegram

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

Tokyo, November 17, 1937—4 p.m.
[Received November 17—5:30 a.m.]

546. Your 297, November 16, 4 p.m. Our belief that Great Britain is responsible for the impression in Japan concerning American initiative and leadership in connection with the Brussels Conference is based on a considerable volume of circumstantial evidence but this evidence does not offer conclusive proof and it is therefore at present insufficient to justify representations to any foreign government.

Grew