THE FAR EASTERN CRISIS



893.01 Manchuria/1096: Telegram
    The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

                                     TOKYO, May 22, 1934-7 p. m.
                                     Received May 22-8: 02 a. m.
  97. The Consul General of Salvador today told the Belgian Ambas-
sador that he had learned only on May 12 that his Government had
recognized "Manchukuo" on March 3. It was not made clear how
the recognition was originally extended or why it was not sooner
given publicity, but it is announced in the Japanese press that the
Consul General has now addressed a note to the Minister of "Man-
chukuo" in Tokyo informing him of the fact of recognition.
  The Consul General has told the local correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press that he believes the step was taken by his Government
with a view to trade considerations, especially to increasing the sale
of Salvadorean coffee to Japan. He further showed to the corre-
spondent his instructions which expressed the belief that the recog-
nition of "Manchukuo" by Salvador might react unfavorably upon
the relations between the United States and Salvador or the United
States and Japan and directed him to endeavor to allay any ill feeling
which might result.
  Repeated to Peiping by mail.
                                                           GREW

500.A15A5/159
Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs
                           (Hornbeck)

                                     [WASHINGTON,] May 24, 1934.
OUR DIPLOMATIC POSITION, AS OF TODAY, IN THE FAR EAST, WITH SPE-
    CIAL REFERENCE TO NAVAL CONFERENCE AND NEED FOR NAVAL CON-
    STRUJCTION
  1. There have occurred recently two things of particular importance
with regard to our problems in relation to the Far East:
  (A) The disclosure, in consequence of the statement25 by the spokes-
man of the Japanese Foreign Office, of the contents of Japan's instruc-
tion to the Japanese Minister to China (which was also circulated by
the Japanese Foreign Office to Japanese missions elsewhere) of which
the concluding paragraph (of translation as furnished us by Mr. Saito)
reads:
  "5. From the points of view above stated we think our guiding prin-
ciple should be generally to defeat foreign activities in China at present,

' Unofficial Statement by the Japanese Foreign Office, April 17, 1934; known
as
the "Amau Statement"; for text, see Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931-1941,
vol. I,
p. 224.



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