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dear Aney.
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Foreign Office,
S.W.1.
26th May, 1927.
Thank you for your letter of May 7th, suggesting some
criticisms of the proposal to set up a Provisional Committee
in China to deal with the Boxer Indemnity.
Recent developments in China had already suggested to us
the possibility of having to reconsider our present Indemnity
policy in connection with the whole question of compensation
for losses and injuries suffered by British subjects in China
during this critical period; but there are many serious
objections to a change of policy as you will see from the
enclosed telegram.
It is, therefore, most undesirable that
any hint of a possible change of policy on our part should be
given abroad, and we propose, while considering the position,
to continue on our present lines and are authorising sir
1.Lampson to sound Shanghai Chinese opinion about the
proposed Provisional Committee, while at the same time
consulting him on the larger issue.
The Right Honourable
L.S. Amery, M.P.,
C
IM. sincerely Cars the chamber tom