Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1940, The Far East, Volume IV

893.102 Tientsin/586: Telegram

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

Tokyo, March 9, 1940—3 p.m.
[Received March 9—3:20 a.m.]

161. Chungking 113, March 4, 1 p.m.¹¹ Tientsin silver. My British colleague informs me that on March 4 he handed to the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs a statement of the changes desired by the Chinese Government in the proposed Anglo-Japanese agreement with regard to the Tientsin silver and that “Tani’s immediate reaction was to reject the amendments practically in toto”. Craigie is to let me have Tani’s reasoned observations when received.

Repeated to Peiping for Chungking, Tientsin and Shanghai.

Grew

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