Grew, who saw the importance of the situation, immediately sent a telegraph to the United States that night to request an urgent summit, and the Department of State immediately started to look into holding a Japan-U.S. summit.
事態を重く見たグルーは、その夜、直ちに首脳会談の早期実現を要請する電報を本国に打ち、国務省では日米首脳会談の検討が直ちに始まった。