The Archive · 1939

Close Watch Maintained On Far East Situation

Wi July 3.

The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, remained in Washington over the holiday week-end to keep a vigilant watch over developments in the Far Eastern and European crisis.

Mr. Hull is going to his office every day, despite the holidays, and is keeping in close communication with President Roosevelt who is now at his Hyde Park estate.

Department of State officials today denied local reports that Mr. Hull plans the early, publication of all diplomatic correspondence between ihe United States and Japan regarding the bombing of American properties in China by Japanese planes. "The pointed out that Japan had not given her consent to publication of the correspondence. They added, however, that the United States may later decide to publish the correspondence, regardless of the desires of the Tokyo Government, particularly if additional incidents involving American property develop.—United Press,

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