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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.
(F 3776/2882/10)
OUT FILE
24th April, 1939.
my
dear
Ronnie
In his despatch No. 473 Secret, of the 18th April,
the Ambassador reported that you had been asked by
Monsieur Chauvel what was meant by the reference to the
possible necessity for His Majesty's Government to cut
their losses in the Far ast in the verbal communication
which you made to him on receipt of our despatch No.892
Secret, of the 14th April. The French are so liable
to distort what we say and to leak that we think it
might be well, the next time you get a favourable
opportunity, to point out to Monsieur Chauvel or
Monsieur Charvériat that whatever you said based on the
third and fourth sentences of paragraph 6 of our
despatch to Shanghai No.308 referred to a remote
possibility and should by no manner of means be regarded
as an indication of a fixed and adopted policy.
Yours ever
R.I. Campbell, Esq., C.B., C.M.G.
Paris.
(Sd.) N. 5. RONALD,
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