693.116/142: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
295. Peiping’s 505, August 18, 4 p.m., and Tientsin’s 157, August 18, 1 p.m., in regard to embargo on wireless equipment at Tientsin. Department desires that you make appropriate representations to the Japanese Foreign Office in regard to this matter. Following the general lines of your recent approach in the matter of the embargo on hides and skins, you may point out that the embargo on importation of wireless equipment is an unwarranted restriction on American trade interests which are the principal suppliers of such equipment; and that the holding up of equipment ordered before the embargo was imposed is causing American dealers substantial losses.
Department desires that you request that steps be taken to have the embargo removed and that special action be taken promptly to relieve the importers in respect to equipment ordered prior to the embargo.63
Peiping please repeat to Chungking and Tientsin.
- In telegram No. 558, August 26, 4 p.m., the Ambassador in Japan informed the Department that oral representations, supported by an aide-mémoire, were presented to the Japanese Foreign Office that same day (693.116144).↩