Office of the Historian

793.94/9335: Telegram

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

Tokyo, August 13, 1937—5 p.m.
[Received August 13—10:20 a.m.]

261. Embassy’s 254, August 10, 7 p.m.

1.
Dodds informs me that the British Ambassador in Nanking has been authorized by his Government to urge the Chinese Government not to close the door to further negotiations.
2.
Referring to Nanking’s 401, August 11, 6 p.m., I wish to make perfectly clear that it was and is far from my intention to recommend [Page 395] action in Nanking; demurring [please see?] the precise phraseology of paragraph 9 of our 254. I entirely concur in Ambassador Johnson’s views as expressed in his telegram.

Repeated to Nanking.

Grew