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with a view to parallel representations by your French and American colleagues (latter in connexion with Peking only).
The American Government have, I am aware, already made
representations and received an assurance regarding the
International Settlement at Shanghai, but parallel action by
them in the North would be of the greatest value in view of
the fact that Japanese pressure may ultimately prove strongest
there.
Repeated to Shanghai No. 389 and Washington No. 223, and
to Paris No. 206 Saving en clair, by bag.
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