CONFIDENTIAL
Against this background, Manzie felt that intervention from London might only be counter-productive.
I think this
is right. I suggested to him, however, that to guard against possible problems with the Chinese, who have a larger stake with the Koreans than with the Anglo-Japanese Consortium, he should be playing up his Chinese connections and that, if things went well, he might also consider an early visit to Peking in order to
the Chinese that their interests
would not be overlooked.
ų.
PERCY CRADOCK
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