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FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1934, VOLUME III


  With regard to the nonrecognition of the puppet organization the American
Government has repeatedly declared this to be its unchanged policy. On June
7, 1933 the Advisory Committee of the League of Nations adopted a resolution
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relative to nonrecognition of the puppet state. The American Minister in
Switzer-
land addressed a formal report to the Secretary General of the League expressing
agreement.' We firmly believe that the American Government will certainly
continue its past policy and will not recognize the puppet organization.'&quot;
                                                           JOHNSON

711.94/934
              Memorandusm by the Secretary of State

                                     [WASHINGTON,] April 3, 1934.
  The Japanese Ambassador called and handed me certain transla-
tions&quot;7 of Japanese papers regarding the recent exchange of notes
between the Foreign Minister of his Government and myself. They
were unanimous in their favorable tone and comment. I thanked him
for his courtesy in bringing them to me and expressed my gratification
to learn of this favorable reaction in the press of his country.
                                                 C[ORDELL] H[un]

033.9411/291
    The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

No. 726                                        TOKYO, April 5, 1934.
                                                [Received April 21.]
  SIR: I have the honor to refer to my despatch No. 645, dated January
13 1934,17 in regard to the visit of Mr. Otohiko Matsukata to the
United States, and to invite the attention of the Department to the
frequency with which these so-called &quot;unofficial envoys of good-will&quot;
are leaving for the United States in recent months. The frequency
with which the visits are being made, combined with other circum-
stances, indicate that the visits are officially inspired and have some
definite object in view.
  The first of the unofficial good-will visitors during recent months
was Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, but the Embassy is of the opinion that
his visit was actually unofficial and was inspired by his personal friend-
ship for the American people. The next to leave Japan was Mr.
Otohiko Matsukata, who told me that his visit was entirely unofficial,
but that he hoped to visit the President informally, as he had known

  15 See League of Nations, Offlcial Journal, Special Supplement No. 113,
p. 10.
  '6For the Department's instructions, see No. 2319, September 20, 1933,
to the
Chargd in Switzerland, Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931-1941, vol. i, p. 121.
17 Not printed.


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