Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, The Far East, Volume IV

393.115/56: Telegram

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

Tokyo, September 11, 1937—noon.
[Received September 11—5:05 a.m.]

361. Department’s 194, September 8, 7 p.m.,²⁰ access by businessmen to Northern District Shanghai.

1. A member of my staff took up the matter with Yoshizawa²¹ at the Foreign Office yesterday morning, leaving an aide-mémoire.

2. My British colleague proposes to act along the same lines. My French colleague will act if he hears from his colleague at Nanking. My German colleague has already made an oral approach on the basis of instructions from Berlin previous to the receipt of my letter to him. My Italian colleague made an oral approach yesterday.

Repeated to Shanghai for relay to Nanking.

Grew

20. Not printed; it repeated Shanghai’s No. 667, September 7, 8 p.m., p. 313, and instructed the Ambassador that after consultation with his interested colleagues he might, in his discretion, make an informal approach to the Japanese Government (393.115/55).
21. Seijiro Yoshizawa, Director of the American Affairs Bureau, Japanese Foreign Office.