Office of the Historian

894.628/148: Telegram

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

Tokyo, March 31, 1936—5 p.m.
[Received March 31—6:49 a.m.]

82. Department’s 37, March 28, 3 p.m. The Foreign Office informs the Embassy orally that no licenses to take salmon in waters adjacent to Alaska have been issued to Japanese vessels; that such action is not contemplated at present and that the Japanese authorities have no knowledge of any Japanese fishing craft in Bering Sea at this time. The Embassy is further informed that there would be no objection to giving this assurance to interested persons.

Grew