711.94/1228
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 17.]
Sir: I have the honor to report that, prior to his departure on November 29 to assume his duties as Ambassador at Washington to replace Mr. Saito, Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi delivered an address before the America–Japan Society of the Kwansai at Osaka on November 18, and also before the America–Japan Society in Tokyo on November 22.
There are transmitted herewith48 a clipping from the Japan Chronicle of November 19 and a clipping from the Japan Advertiser [Page 403] of November 23 in which are published Mr. Horinouchi’s addresses. As may be expected the two speeches are very similar, with only such changes as were demanded by the locality in which the Ambassador-designate spoke. It is, however, significant that on both occasions, he made reference to the “new order in East Asia” for which Japan is striving, based upon cultural and economic “coordination between Japan, Manchukuo and China”. This is, of course, recognizable as Mr. Arita’s “Japan–Manchukuo–China bloc” to which he has recently made reference in conversations with my British colleague and myself.* Thus it may be expected that Mr. Horinouchi goes to Washington as a proponent of the “New Policy”, involving modification of the open door and equality of opportunity in China and the scrapping of the Nine Power Treaty.
Respectfully yours,
- Enclosures not reprinted.↩
- Embassy’s telegrams No. 744, November 18 [19], 8 p.m., and No. 759, December 1, 3 p.m. [Footnote in the original; telegrams printed in vol. iv, pp. 93 and 98.]↩