793.94/15959a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)
207. In reply to an inquiry at the press conference on June 14 as to whether you had been instructed to lodge a protest with the Japanese Foreign Office over the recent bombings of Chungking, the Secretary said that we have definite standing instructions to all of our representatives to implement our policies whenever in their judgment the situation warrants or suggests it. In reply to a further question as to whether a copy of the Secretary’s statement of June 1376 had been sent to you, the Secretary answered in the affirmative. [Page 881] In answer to a still further question as to whether this copy had been accompanied by instructions, the Secretary repeated that there were standing instructions to cover this kind of incident.
- See press release issued by the Department of State on June 13, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol. i, p. 690.↩