Contents

(Note: For previously published correspondence on relations between the United States and Japan in 1939, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, Volumes I and II. Documents printed in those volumes have not been reprinted in the 1939 annual volumes.)

• Relations of Japan with the Axis Powers and with the Soviet Union
• Southward advance of Japanese expansionist movement: Hainan and the Spratly Islands
• Undeclared war between Japan and China:
  • Political and military developments
  • Continued interest of the League of Nations in efforts to check Japanese aggression in China
  • Japanese interference with American treaty rights and with equality of commercial opportunity in China
  • Consideration of sanctions against Japanese policies of aggression and violation of treaty rights; use of so-called “moral embargo”
  • Notice of termination of the 1911 treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and Japan; discussion regarding possibility of a new agreement
  • Consideration of possibilities of financial aid to China
  • Proposal for dissolution of the China Consortium; decision to continue its existence
  • Efforts of China to secure war material from other countries
  • Naval measures taken by China and Japan along the coasts and in the rivers of China; effect on American and other shipping
  • Efforts by the United States and other powers to protect Chinese customs and other revenues, pledged as security for loans, from Japanese encroachment
• Index