Office of the Historian

393.115/62: Telegram

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

Tokyo, September 17, 1937—6 p.m.
[Received September 17—7:55 a.m.]

382. Shanghai’s 718, September 16, 6 p.m. During my call this afternoon on the Minister for Foreign Affairs (see our 381, September 17, 5 p.m.) I took occasion again to urge emphatically the importance of the Japanese authorities at Shanghai being directed to respect the right of American nationals to have reasonable access to their property and to remove cargo and supplies from the Northern District of Shanghai. I left with the Minister an aide-mémoire covering the substance of Shanghai’s telegram.

Repeated to Shanghai.

Grew