Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1938, The Far East, Volume IV

893.811/1016: Telegram

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

Tokyo, September 27, 1938—11 a.m.
[Received September 27—6 a.m.]

622. Our 619, September 24, noon—Whangpoo Conservancy. My British colleague and I agree that the Japanese proposal that the negotiations be continued at Shanghai should be taken up because (a) there is little prospect of a settlement through exchange of notes here and (b) apparently a settlement had been all but reached at Shanghai on the basis of the appointment of a Japanese co-engineer. Craigie⁴⁵ has telegraphed his Government in the foregoing sense.

Grew

45. British Ambassador in Japan.