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BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL,
SAN FRANCISCO,
CALIFORNIA.
June 6th, 1939.
Dear Hoyer-Millar:-
A Mr. Boku (or Fak) recently passed
through San Francisco on his way to Warsaw,
where he is to take up the appointment of
Manchukuo Consul-General. He is a Korean, Pak
being the Korean reading of the character
representing his name and Boku the Japanese. He
identifies himself with Japan by using the
Japanese reading on his visiting card.
To a journalist acquaintance of mine
who had an hour's conversation with him, however,
Mr. Boku expressed violently anti-Japanese views,
and declared that all Chinese and Koreans fervently
desired a Japanese defeat. This is not surprising
in a Korean but it shows how little the Japanese
know about their henchmen, for the Manchurian
Government would certainly not have been permitted
to select him for this post unless the Japanese
had regarded him as politically "sound".
Yours ever,
F. R. Hoyer-Millar, Esq., C.M.G., C.V. O.,
British Embassy,
WASHINGTON.
(Sgd) P. D. Butler
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