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Rees 15 JUL 10
[June 27.]
SECTION 1.
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No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to Mr. Bryce.
(No. 205.) Sir,
Foreign Office, June 27, 1910. THE United States Ambassador told me to-day that his Government were afraid that, in the last paragraph of our note about the Hukuang loan, there might be implied some extension of the scope of the Paris agreement. It was apparently the word "henceforward" which had raised this apprehension.
I asked what extension could be implied in the word, and the Ambassador replied that he did not himself know, but evidently his Government were somewhat apprehensive.
I said that it seemed to me all that was meant was that with regard to the Hankow-Szechuan Railway the promise made to the British and United States Governments in 1903 must now be interpreted in terms of four Powers as described, and that no extension of the Paris agreement was implied.
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