put into effect.
A drafting committee on which I naturally declined to serve was appointed to prepere this statement. I made it plain to my colleagues that I could not commit myself to anything be- yond submitting such a formula to His Liajesty's
Goverment.
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 361. Repeated to Tokyo Ho. 112, Hongkong No. 35,
Canton No. 111.
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