693.001/399: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 7—8:35 a.m.]
711. Tomorrow morning Fleisher will telephone to the New York Herald Tribune a long statement which will be attributed to a high Japanese authority in a position of responsibility. The source of the statement is Yoshizawa, Chief of the American Bureau of the Foreign Office, who requested that his name be withheld from publication but expressed to Fleisher the desire that his remarks be given full publicity in the United States. Among other points the statement says that there is no truth in the current press reports that Japan will denounce the Nine Power Treaty or that Japan will ask for revision of the treaty because no revision could satisfy all parties concerned. Yoshizawa opined that the treaty will eventually die a natural death.
With regard to our note of October 6, Yoshizawa said that the Japanese Government was unfavorably surprised at its publication without prior consultation.
Fleisher is to send me the text of his despatch but I assume that the Herald Tribune will publish it in full.