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After further discussion, THE COMMITTEE: -
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(i) agreed that the advice to our Nationals:
should be that, as patriotic British subjects, they are expected to refrain from assisting the enemy war effort; and that His Majesty's Government would not regard as unpatriotic the participation of British subjects in such maintenance of essential services as is for the benefit of the civil population of the occupied territory.
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(ii) invited the Foreign Office to obtain the
concurrence of the United States Government in this advice before requesting the Swiss Government to communicate it to China.
(iii) invited the Foreign office to discuss the
question with the Netherlands Government.
2. COMMUNICATION WITH BRITISHI FIRMS IN OCCUPIED CHINA.
SIR JOHN BRENAN gave the Committee the substance of draft telegrams, embodying a scheme suggested by the London Chamber of Commerce, for enabling communications to be sent to British firms in Occupied China for the purpose of settling up outstanding business matters. These communications would be subject to control by the Trading with the Enemy Branch and by the Postal and Telegraph Censorship.
It was suggested in discussion that communications in the reverse direction should also be dealt with in the telegrams, The channel proposed would provide for the Postal and Telegraph Censorship sceing the communications in the first place and for the Trading with the Enemy Branch to have adequate control.
THE COMMITTEE:
dis reply
(i)
from main Wethered, Comonships, See letter attached !
/invited the Foreign office to discuss with
the London Chamber of Commerce the method of communicating from Occupied China to this country..
(ii) approved the draft telegrams, subject to
amplification as the result of (i)..above,
Lee 70.0165
Mar 16th
F2163/456/10
Great George Street, S.W 1.
13TH MARCH, 1942.
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