Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, The Far East, Volume III

751.94/87: Telegram

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

Tokyo, October 31, 1939—4 p.m.
[Received October 31—7:07 a.m.]

563. Chungking’s 566, October 23, 11 a.m.⁹⁹ My French colleague told me recently that owing to France’s involvement in the European war it is now the policy of his Government to remove or to avoid all grounds of French friction with Japan.

He also told me that whereas the original instructions from the French Government recalled all French reservists from the Far East, these instructions were later amended to apply only to those men under 40 and that they were subsequently amended to apply only to men under 30 years of age.

Repeated to Peiping.

Grew

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