Office of the Historian

893.01 Provisional/88: Telegram

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

Tokyo, March 25, 1938—9 a.m.
[Received 10:55 a.m.]

205. Nanking’s 82, March 23, 5 p.m.,5 Nanking Provisional Government. In reference to reports of impending inauguration at Nanking of a provisional government, Foreign Minister Hirota has stated in the House of Representatives that Japan’s relations with the existing Peiping regime will not thereby be changed; that Japan expects that the Peiping regime will in time develop into a unified administration for both North and Central China; but that in the meantime commercial interests contemplating activities in Central China must deal with the impending Nanking regime.

Repeated to Shanghai for Hankow.

Grew
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