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remember that I circulated a
memorandum to the Cabinet on
the subject in December 1926 and
Ormsby-Gore also circulated a
in my absence,
memorandum, in February this year.
Sir Cecil Clementi, Govr. of H.K.,
is very keen about it. He has
had interviews this summer with
feller be modified, or the F.O.
answer ready.
will have an
various officials in the F.0. and with
Lord Buxton, and you will remember that
it was proposed, just before you
went away, that he should discuss
it with you.
In view of our obvious
interest in the matter I should
naturally have assumed that the F.0.,
even if they did not consult us,
would have sent officially copies of the
telegraphic correspondence with Peking.
They not only failed to do that
but they deliberately anitted these
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will require verbal alterations
if sent
so
is hard Cushendun.
particular