Office of the Historian

793.94/15959

The Secretary of State to President Roosevelt

Washington, June 13, 1940.

Before your memorandum of June 13 in regard to the apparently indiscriminate bombing of Chungking was brought to my attention, I issued to the press a statement on this subject,71 a copy of which is enclosed for convenience of reference. In the light of your memorandum, I am also telegraphing Ambassador Grew at Tokyo72 to bring that statement to the personal attention of the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Cordell Hull
  1. Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, Vol. i, p. 690.↩
  2. Telegram No. 197, June 13, 5 p.m., not printed.↩