police authorities there who will decide whether confinement in asylum
or home is necessary. I will shortly transmit a despatch 59a containing
additional information concerning the legal and anti-American as-
pects of the case and suggest advisability of Embassy's deferring ac-
tion pending its receipt."
  Repeated to Tokyo.
                                                         JOHNSON

711.94/974a: Telegram
    The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Japan (Grew)

                            WASHINGTON, August 6, 1934-3 p. m.
  134. 1. The New York Times of August 5 carries an account under
Tokyo date line August 5 of an article by General Tanaka,60 transla-
tion of which appeared in the Japan Advertiser of August 5. The
account begins as follows: "President Roosevelt's 'loud' comment on
the efficiency of the United States naval establishment in Hawaii is
characterized as 'insolent"' by General Tanaka. The account states
that "President Roosevelt has traveled to Hawaii and there inspected
the Pearl Harbor Base, which is regarded as the center of American
offensive operations in the Pacific, telling the world in loud tones its
equipment is perfect". There immediately follows a statement ap-
parently directly quoted from Tanaka's article stating that "such
insolent behavior makes us most suspicious. It makes us think a
major disturbance is purposely being encouraged in the calm Pacific.
This is greatly regretted."
  2. Please cable the text of a sufficient portion of Tanaka's article to
enable the Department to determine whether Tanaka used the word
"insolent" and, if so, whether Tanaka applies that word to the
Presi-
dent or to a series of American acts to which Tanaka takes exception.
  3. Is Tanaka now in active service?
  4. Your comments would be welcomed.
  t. Forward full text of article by mail.
                                                           HULL

711.94/975: Telegram
    The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

                                  ToEyo, August 7, 1934-9 p. m.
                                  [Received August 7-1: 35 p. m.]
  173. Department's 134, August 6, 3 p. m.
  1. The paragraph in Tanaka's article which contains the passage
referred to by the Department is as follows:

6a Not printed.
* Gen. Kunishige Tanaka, former Japanese Military Attach6 at Washington.



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