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probably do th: same. The line I should take would be to say
that the matter was clearly outside the scope of the Conference;
that the question had been considered at length in the First
Conference and that we had, with great difficulty, arrived
at an agreement in respect of the further measures to be
taken; that the position in the British Territories had been
fully set out in the rep rta which had been laid before the
First Conference and in the explanations which I had given
during the discussions j mid that quite apart from the
competence of the Conference, no useful purpose would be
served by résopening the matter. 1 would then proceed to make
the suggestion of the Com ission of Inquiry.
I thought it mly fair and courteous to the
Dutch Delegate (who has worked with us in an extremely friedly
way throughout the First Conference) to let him know confidentialy
of the proposal ve were going to make with regard to the
Commission of inquiry, so that he might not be taken by surprise
and might have time, if he thought fit, to son mult his Government.
• understood our position in the matter, but after thinking it
over he said that he was very strongly opposed to the proposal
and that it would be impossible to get a Commission which would be
competent to make mich an investigation,
In view of the line the French have taken here I
am not inclined to mention it to the French Delegate, but I
thought, and still think, that it would be desirable to peo
whether the French Govemment could not be got to agree to
support the proposal when I bring it forward in the Second
Conferenc@g If a heated debate takes place on the American
Droposal. I am afraid the offer may meet with little acceptance,
either on the American side, or on the side of the other Far
Eastern Powers, and may fall rather flat. Of course, one cannot
be sure; the Americans may be glad to find any way out of the
The Tyanah Delegate here has been courting the Aericana
and/