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893.102 Tientsin/687: Telegram

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

Tokyo, June 19, 1940—1 p.m.
[Received June 19—1:30 a.m.]

467. Our 460.32 My French colleague has informed me that he will today sign a statement identical to that signed by Sir Robert Craigie and the Minister for Foreign Affairs on July 22, 1939. This statement was reported textually in paragraph 5 of the Embassy’s telegram [Page 857] No. 348, July 21, 6 p.m.33 The French Ambassador will sign tomorrow memoranda identical to those which the British Ambassador now expects to sign today for the settlement of the difficulties at Tientsin.

Mr. Arsène-Henry believed measures would be found to overcome the reported difficulties with Japanese authorities at Tientsin concerning the removal of the barriers reported in my telegram under reference.

Repeated to Peiping. Peiping please repeat to Chungking and Tientsin.

Grew
  1. June 18, 5 p.m., not printed.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, 1939, vol. iv, p. 224.↩