894.6363/137: Telegram
    The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain
                           (Binghanm)

                           WASHINGTON, November 30, 1934-5 p. m.
  419. Your 603, November 27, 7 p. m.
  1. Department is considering your telegram under reference and
will reply later. Please inform Dooman.
  2. Please inform Foreign Office that Department on November 28
requested Grew to hand to Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs a
firmly worded aide-menmoire prepared by the Department in regard
to the proposed oil monopoly in Manchuria. Department also re-
quested Grew to emphasize orally, when presenting the aide-ne'moire,
the seriousness with which the American Government views the sub-
ject under discussion; and to state the American Government's em-
phatic denial that the oil situation either in Manchuria or Japan
is in any way linked with our efforts or our procedure at the London
naval conversations.
3. With regard to the oil situation in Japan you may inform Foreign
Office to the effect that Department has indicated to representative
of Standard-Vacuum Company and lo Grew that if compliance with
the Japanese suggestion for the submission by the concerned oil com-
panies of provisional import plans meets with the approval of the oil
companies and the American and British Embassies in Tokyo, Depart-
ment would perceive no objection thereto.
                                                           Hu-LL

893.6363 Manchuria/99: Telegram
    The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

                                  TOKYO, December 1, 1934-noon.
                               [Received December 1-5: 12 a. m.]
  266. Department's 198, November 28, 7 p. m. Presented Depart-
ment's aide-mnemoire on Manchurian oil monopoly to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs today, bringing out orally the two points mentioned
in the ante-penultimate paragraph of the Department's telegram.
  The Minister in answering my oral representations said that he
would forward our aide-memoire to Hsinking but he felt that the
American and British Governments were taking a too legalistic view
of the matter. The authorities of "Manehukuo" had every desire
to
maintain the open door in practice and wished to work out with the
representatives of the foreign oil companies a reasonable arrangement
by which their interests would not be jeopardized. Japan had come



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