Office of the Historian

711.417/1082: Telegram

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

Tokyo, March 19, 1940—5 p.m.
[Received March 19—6:40 a.m.]

184. The press reports that the Minister for Foreign Affairs43 stated on March 18, in a committee of the Lower House (when complaint was made by a member that the protection afforded by the Fur Seals Convention of 191144 had so increased the number of seals that the fisheries were being seriously affected), the [that?] consideration is now being given to proposing in the near future a revision of the Convention. He is reported to have added, “The Convention may now be terminated but I would like first to give the matter further study.”

Grew
  1. Hachiro Arita.↩
  2. Signed at Washington, July 7, 1911, by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, Foreign Relations, 1911, p. 260.↩