893.516/715: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 18—10:20 a.m.]
1333. Embassy’s 1320, December 13, 6 p.m., Central Bank of China. In an interview with the Foreign Minister today I pointed out to him the discrepancy between the sentence in his “oral statement” of December 13 quoted in substantive paragraph 2 of Embassy telegram under [Page 560] reference to the effect that our communication should have been addressed to the Nanking Government and the Minister’s attitude as expressed to me on November 10 recognizing the absurdity of “unloading on the new regime in China the responsibility for various developments as if the Japanese Government was not concerned.” The Minister replied that the sentence under reference in his “oral statement” of December 13 was necessary for purposes of record but that he had taken special pains to set forth clearly at the same time the interest and concern of the Japanese Government in the Central Bank.
Sent to the Department via Shanghai.