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600.939/201: Telegram

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

Tokyo , July 6, 1938—7 p.m.
[Received July 6—8:40 a.m.]

444. Tientsin’s 114, July 1, 6 p.m.;39 and Department’s 329 [229], July 2, 7 p.m.,40 export embargo hides and skins. I presented this case to the Minister for Foreign Affairs41 during the course of my recent interview with him42 (our 437, July 4, 7 p.m.43) and today we delivered to the Foreign Office an aide-mémoire along the lines desired by the Department.

Repeated to Peiping for Tientsin and Hankow.

Grew
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See supra.↩
  3. Gen. Kazushige Ugaki.↩
  4. See memorandum of July 4 by the Ambassador in Japan, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, pp. 605, 610.↩
  5. See telegram No. 945, July 5, noon, from the Consul General at Shanghai, vol. iii, p. 211.↩