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f the whole questi n of the boycott?
a settlement
MR. BRENANA
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MR. KEMP: Your Enquiry proposal would involve many months and pyrhaps even a year. Is the boycott t continue all that time?
MR
CHEN: We ought not t. be incapable of finding some solution.
An International Enquiry may involve large demands
MR. BRENAN:
on you..
MR. CHEN:
MR. KEMP:
MR.
CHEN:
Whatever the fourt of Enquiry decides we will abide by
Is it your idea that the Court should award d¿mages?
If the fourt holds either side responsible that
sidy would make amends.
MR. BRINAN The suggestion involvus much delay. The nati ns concerned might not be willing to allow their nationals to takt part.
MR. CHEN: But the issuc is of great importance.
some 100 dead.
There were
MR. ERENANƒ I have no desire to minimise the importance of < the issuɩ but the suggested Enquiry will not settle the
question and the Chinese authorities have never before asked
for an enquiry.
MR. CHEN: You turn down ur demands at once. Witncsscs for
the Enquiry is only a matter of numbers.
MR. BRENAN Sir James Jamieson and Licut.-Commander Maxwell
Scott and intern.ti-nal witnesses ur absent.
MR. SOONG': We love it to the British Lugation t. say who ther
they agree t, an
Internation
rnational Enquiry,
and we will consult ur
Government on the counter-proposal.
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