894.24/652a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
113. Press flashes this noon state that Senator Pittman has introduced a bill4 which would authorize the President to place restrictions upon trade and commerce between the United States and any violator of the Nine Power Treaty of 1922; also that the Senator said that his plan was drafted “By me alone, and no one else knows anything about it.”
At his press conference today, the Secretary, when asked for comment, said that he had no knowledge of the matter until he saw the news flash; that he had not had any conference on the subject; and that he thought that Senator Pittman had made it clear in the statement which accompanied his introduction of the bill that the bill was his own individual product.
- S. J. Res. 123, Congressional Record, vol. 84, pt. 5, p. 4821.↩