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CHINA.
Decypher.
Sir M. Lampson (Nanking)
31st March 1931.
D.
6.00 p.m.
31st March 1931.
R.
3.10 p.m.
31st March 1931.
No. 92.
(TOUR).
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Extraterritoriality.
On March 30th in the course of general
conversation Minister for Foreign Affairs informed
United States Minister that he had telegraphed to
Chinese Minister at Washington results of negotiations
so far reached with us and instructed him to invite
State Department to resume negotiations in Washington
on a similar basis.
2. On Mr. Johnson giving me above information
and asking for my views and if he could help I said
that this seemed to me a backward step which would
re-open possibilities of Chinese playing us one
against the other and I indicated my hope that
United States Government would see through this
manoeuvre and not fall in with it. He concurred.
3. I hope nothing will come of this attempt
to separate us again.
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 92, repeaicû
to Peking.