November 9th 1928
24 91
My dear Ronnie,
Sir Cecil Clementi, the Governor of Hong Kong,
tells me that he had a talk with Sir Victor
Wellesley the other day from which he gathered
that, in view of the experience of the American
trustees, the F.0. or recognise the futility of
trying to give effect to the Willingdon Report.
Wellesley seems to have added that the F.0. is now
seriously considering the proposal that the whole
of the Boxer Indemnity funds, both the two and a h
millions already recovered and the future instalme due, should be given back to "China" as an act of
There may conceivably be something to k
said for waiving the Indemnity in the future, thou
personally I strongly share the view expressed by
Winston the other day that we ought not to give uj
good claims of ours as a mere gesture of goodwill
goodwill.