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(b)
It would tend to throw Japan more
definitely into the other camp.
(c) If Chiang Kai-shek's government were
accepted by us as an ally in the European war,
his enemies would become our enemies.
The Japanese are quite capable of seizing this
pretext for making the puppet Chinese governments
declare war on us, while Japan herself main-
tained her present state of semi-neutrality.
The position of our unfortunate nationals in
China would then become much more dangerous
than it is now. The puppet administrations
would be encouraged to treat them as enemy
aliens and we should be quite unable to protect
them or prevent the confiscation of their
property.
I agree therefore that the disadvantages
far outweigh the advantages and that
Sir A. Clark Kerr should be instructed to dis-
courage the idea as tactfully as may be, if it
is ever seriously advanced.
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