Office of the Historian

793.94/14303: Telegram

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

Tokyo, November 5, 1938—6 p.m.
[Received 7:07 p.m.]

708. Department’s 373, November 2, 2 [4] p.m., and 376, November 3, 6 p.m.,61 navigation on the Yangtze River. My British and French colleagues concur in the Department’s proposal and are prepared to act as soon as they receive instructions. We propose to write similar but not identic notes and to present them in person to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in support of our vigorous oral representations. Arita62 is to receive the diplomatic representatives ceremonially on Monday afternoon November 7. We shall either act at that time or if that is not practicable we shall ask for separate appointments shortly thereafter. This [procedure?] of course assumes that the British and French instructions are confirmatory. The French instructions are now being decoded. The British instructions have not yet been received. I hope to be able to report to the Department definitely on this point tomorrow.

Sent to Chungking. Commander-in-Chief will be informed.

Grew
  1. Latter not printed; it reported telegrams from London and Paris.↩
  2. Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs.↩