711.942/476: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 18—6:54 a.m.]
28. The Foreign Ambassadors were received individually by the Minister for Foreign Affairs7 today merely to pay their respects. Arita said that he desired to carry on with me the conversations begun by his predecessor and would set a date in due course. He said that he had instructed the Japanese Ambassador in Washington to call on you and to endeavor to arrange for a continuation of the present status of “treaty merchants” after the treaty of 1911 expires. A change in their status, he said, would injure both countries.
- Hachiro Arita.↩