Office of the Historian

393.1115/3055: Telegram

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

Tokyo, April 4, 1938—1 p.m.
[Received April 4—5:43 a.m.]

225. Department’s 116, April 1, 9 p.m., return of Americans to Nanking. I called today on the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and [Page 305] made strong representations supported by an aide-mémoire as well as a separate informal document presenting the facts described in Nanking’s 90, April 1, 4 p.m. The situation was fully and vigorously set forth.

Repeated to Shanghai for Nanking.

Grew