Office of the Historian

793.94/9895: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)99

Washington, September 4, 1937—4 p.m.

191. Reference Shanghai’s 648, September 4, 10 a.m., to the Department (repeated to you) with regard to recommendations that Chinese and Japanese military forces withdraw from certain areas near the Settlement.

If you have not already done so, the Department desires that you, in association with your British and French colleagues, bring the matter to the attention of the Japanese Foreign Office with expression of the earnest hope that the recommendations will be acted upon favorably. You should state that a similar approach is being made to the Chinese Foreign Office.

Hull
  1. The Ambassador in China at Nanking was sent similar instructions in telegram No. 215, September 4, 5 p.m.↩