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MR. CHEN: We have met and we now know that the point at issueis responsibility for the 3hakee shooting and tapa, can
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be settled by an Inquiry. You must remember you turned
down our original demands.
MR. BREN AN; You should have pressed for a Judicial International
Enquiry at the time. You did not. We would certainly have
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welcomed an Enquiry then. You have no right to spring it
on us now.
MR. CHEN:
break-down.
This Enquiry seems the only alternative to a
MR. BRENAN: If our counter-proposal is not accepted it appears that a breakdown is inevitable.
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MR. CHEN; I must press the point of the Enquiry to be
referred to the British authorities. Qur denands last year
were rejected. No oroposals were made in reply and we there-
fore are not to blame for not having suggested an Enquiry,.
MR. BRENAN; You held an Enquiry and called no foreign witnesses
Sir James Jamieson offered to give evidence but he wis not
called.
MR.
CHEN : I was not aware of it.
MR. BRENAN: Last year's demands were not really serious demands.
At this stage the Chinese delegation retired for a fev
minutes. On returning Ir.
We will put our first
proposal for an Enquiry to you in writing and in the meantime
will consider your counter-proposal.
MR. BRENAN:- In your writing please work out the implications
of your case for an Enquiry, so as to avoid the necessity for further
correspondence; for example, how would you constitute the Coutt,
and
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