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

893.515/1353: Telegram

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

Washington, February 4, 1939—1 p.m.

28. Your 53, January 31, 3 p.m. On January 25 the British Chargé d’Affaires here handed the Under Secretary an aide-mémoire on the subject of the second of the two matters mentioned in your 45, January 26, noon,⁷⁰ paragraph 1. On February 3 the Under Secretary informed the British Chargé d’Affaires orally that we had tentatively arrived at a conclusion similar in general to the conclusion tentatively arrived at by the British Government.

Hull

70. Not printed.