Office of the Historian

393.115 Ida Kahn Women’s Hospital/8: Telegram

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

Washington, December 31, 1937—3 p.m.

388. Your 692, December 28, 6 p.m. In similar cases involving the bombing of American missionary property as a result of alleged “mistake” Japanese Government has stated in effect that it was prepared to give proper consideration with regard to the losses and damages inflicted on the American property involved. See your 612, December 10, 4 p.m., also your 570, November 27, 1 p.m. and 537, November 12, 9 p.m. and your 397, September 20, 10 p.m.71

The Department suggests that matter be taken up with the Foreign Office with a view to obtaining similar assurances in case of Ida Kahn Hospital.72

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  1. Telegram No. 397 not printed.↩
  2. The Japanese Foreign Office thereupon gave “oral assurances that the question of indemnification for damages and losses in this case will be given equal consideration with that in other similar cases and that reference to the question of indemnification was inadvertently omitted from the Foreign Office’s reply of December 22.” (393.115 Ida Kahn Women’s Hospital/9)↩