393.115/356: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 28—7:51 a.m.]
421. Department’s 212, June 25, 4 p.m.93 In the light of the Department’s extremely helpful telegram we are now assembling full data for my forthcoming interview with the Minister for Foreign Affairs including an itemized list of well over 100 specific cases of injury to American property in China by bombing, looting and other causes, of damage at the hands of Japanese troops. I propose to hand this list to the Minister at the beginning of our interview and then to take up seriatim the various points and principles set forth by the Department. Unless the Department sees some reason for delay I shall seek the interview with the Minister towards the end of this week, probably Friday.
Repeated to Shanghai for Hankow.