894.00/1009: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 11—3:12 p.m.]
390. 1. There are increasing indications that a reorganization of the Cabinet is under discussion in high quarters.…
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6. I now attempt no assessment of the effects of these trends and possible changes on foreign problems. I would certainly not expect to see any marked modification of Japan’s objectives nor indeed of her outward manifestations of attitude, but recent developments here together with available indices of future trends, some of which have arisen from American military preparations, point in the main toward decrease of the will further to aggravate Japan’s international difficulties and toward an increase of caution.