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had not been reached where the Admirals might be invited to
discuss the matter.
It was agreed that it would be premature to do this until
the Note had been agreed upon.
Monsieur Yoshizawa said that as he understood it the
Thit ed States Government did not actually object to the proposed
procedure.
Mr Maver confirmed this impression. The United States
Government merely had doubts which they wanted cleared up. All the necessary information had been supplied and the whole plan
was still being considered in the light of it. A point to
be borne in mind was that so far no American shipping had
been directly involved.
Sir M. Lampson said that the position seemed to be that
United States Government want
know what
cooperation" memt.
Mr. Mayer said he thought this was so. He wondered there-
fore whether the expansion suggested by the Japanese Govern❤
ment would not put obstacles in the way.
Monsieur Varé said he wondered the same thing.
Sir M. Lampson said that if Notes were addressed to the
Northern as well as to the Southern Authorities, each ought
to b informed of
action taken vis-a-vis the other. The
danger he foresaw was that the North might ask us to co-operate
with them in suppressing pirasy in
South and rim.versa.
This would result in a curious situation. As a matter of
tasties he thought it better to deal with the problem piece-
meal though he was sure that everyone was in principle in
favour of suppressing piracy at every point where it occurred.
Monsieur Yoshizawa said that of course the Japanese
Government had preposed the inclusion of Haishow in the
scheme because of the comparatively larger Japanese shipping
interest there.
Mr. Mayer said that he fully understood this, Other
places