Office of the Historian

793.94/11545: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)32

Washington, December 9, 1937—5 p.m.

335. Your 609, December 9, 5 p.m. While no objection is perceived to your reminding the Foreign Office of the assurances repeatedly [Page 395] given with regard to safeguarding lives and property of non-combatants, the Department considers it inadvisable as no Americans are known to have been injured for you to request that an investigation be made or to urge that those responsible be severely dealt with.33

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  1. Repeated in telegram No. 391 for the information of the Embassy in China.↩
  2. The Ambassador in Japan in telegram No. 610, December 10, 11 a.m., reported no action was taken, but that “we will look for an early opportunity to remind the Foreign Office of assurances given regarding safety of lives and property.” (793.94/11555)↩