Office of the Historian

793.94/14197: Telegram

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

Washington, October 26, 1938—7 p.m.

364. Your 687, October 26, 8 p.m., paragraph 3. You are authorized and instructed to take action similar to that taken by your British colleague but of course avoiding the making of any threat such as appears in the last sentence of his text as quoted in your telegram under reference.53

Repeated to Shanghai and Chungking.

Hull
  1. For Ambassador Grew’s letter of October 27 to the Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 626.↩