Office of the Historian

893.102 Tientsin/664: Telegram

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

Washington, May 27, 1940—6 p.m.

166. Tientsin’s 80, May 24, 5 p.m.28 The consideration mentioned in regard to the early departure of American women and children for the summer holidays leads the Department to suggest that, unless you perceive objection, you make a further oral approach to the Foreign Office29 and request that arrangements be made without delay to provide for the free and unmolested passage of all Americans and their baggage through the barriers.

Sent to Tokyo via Shanghai. Repeated to Chungking, Peiping, and Tientsin.

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  1. Not printed.↩
  2. For the Ambassador’s implementation on May 31 of the Department’s suggestion, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 690.↩