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Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo),
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• 27 FEC 19ng
25th February, 1939.
197
D.
11.10 p.m.
25th February, 1939.
R.
5.15 p.m.
25th February, 1959.
No. 186.
(R).
IMPORTANT.
My telegram No. 185.
FI
1864
Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs asked me to call this
evening and handed to me a note, for text of which please see my
immediately following telegram. This is in substitution for note
quoted in my telegram No. 173 original of which I returned to
His Excellency.
You will see that the new note contains assurances C. and D.
referred to in your telegram No. 95, but not that relating to the
forty-eight hours notice of intended operations. On this point
the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs stated some doubt existed
because according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs records, notice
originally offered by local authorities was only twenty-four hours.
He felt sure however that British and Japanese local authorities
would have no difficulty in reaching satisfactory understanding
on this point.
I expressed the hope that once such an understanding had been
reached it would be recorded in the form of a semi-official
communication to myself, should Your Lordship consider this
desirable.
I then handed to the Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs
note of which text is given in my telegram No. 188.
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