893.102 Tientsin/398: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in the United Kingdom (Johnson)
Washington, July 28, 1939—6
p.m.
593. Your 1074, July 27, 5 p.m.
- 1.
- On July 25, in reply to a question by a press correspondent whether any notification had been received from the British Government in regard to the agreement between Great Britain and Japan, I said that we had got something from our representative at Tokyo on the subject, whereupon the correspondent inquired whether anything official had been received from England, to which I answered that I did not recall that we had had anything direct from London. It will thus be clear from the way the subject was brought up that there was in my statement no implication or thought of dissatisfaction or of criticism.
- 2.
- With regard to your statement that you had no information other than that appearing in the press with regard to the giving of notice of intention to terminate the 1911 Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with Japan, you will have now received radio bulletin no. 173 of July 27 which contains the text of the note which the Department delivered on July 26 to the Japanese Embassy.14 The radio bulletin of July 27 also contains a résumé of questions brought up by press correspondents in regard to the subject at my press conference on July 27 and my replies to those questions.
Hull