guarantee of non-aggression, but he did not indicate that the Chinese
Government was prepared in any way to discuss the matter at the
present time.
                                               WIAM PHILLIPS

711.9411/5
Memorandums by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs
                           (Hornbeck)

                                    [WAsmNGTroN,] April 13, 1934.
  The Italian Ambassador asked for an appointment and called on
me this morning. He read me a telegram which he said he had just
received from Rome in which his Foreign Office informed him that
it had received a telegram from the Italian Ambassador in Moscow
stating that information was in circulation in Moscow to the effect
that the Japanese Government had proposed to the American Govern-
ment a non-aggression pact and the American Government had re-
plied that it would not be agreeable to a bilateral pact but would be
agreeable to a four-power pact (United States, Japan, Soviet Union
and China). The Ambassador asked whether I could give him any
information.                  I
  I replied that I doubted whether the Department would wish to
make any statement but that I could say to him for his confidential
information and the confidential information of his Foreign Office
that no proposals had been received here and no such project is, on
our part, under discussion. I requested that, if the Ambassador re-
ported this to his Government, he especially ask them not to circulate
or to make public any statement with regard to the matter. The
Ambassador said that our confidence would be respected.
  The conversation there ended.
                                        S[TANLEY] K. H[ORNBECK]


894.415 Perry/23
     The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

No. 772                                       TOKYO, May 4,1934.
                                               [Received May 19.]
  SIR: The celebration in Japan of the eightieth anniversary of the
signing of the first treaty with the United States,24 and in commem-
oration of both Commodore Perry and Townsend Harris, has been

  24 Signed at Kanagawa, March 31, 1854, Hunter Miller (ed.), Treaties and
  Other International Acts of the United States of America (Washington, Govern-
ment Printing Office, 1942), vol. 6, p. 439.



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