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in line with the American Government, although the latter insisted on negotiating in Washington, which made things very difficult. Exactly what the American attitudo was he was not quito ciser, but he would be seeing the American minister at lanking in a few days time. The trouble waa thumb the American Government rather tandee to follow a zig-zag course, first advancing and reking concessions and then retreating and withdrawing them, so that it was difficult to know just where one stood
with them.
Discussing the question of safeguards, Sir H. Lempron indiested that avocation, which was in any case rather in the nature of a paper guarantee, would pro- bably be the first one to go. M.M.O. eansidered that
in any ease the tins was opportune for getting on with this business and making a real attempt to reach a settlement. As regards the situation which would arise
if no settlement were
sached, it was of course diffi-
cult to speculate, but it seemed probable that the
Chinese would tighten up the screw and that there would be a tendency towards forcing the issue over minor
incidents such as those which had occurred and had
bean satisfactorily disposed of in 1950.
Bar X. Lampson referred briefly to the question
of the reservod areas, with special referance to
Shanghai, and intimated that he thought H... were likely to take a fairly firm stand on that point.
Ho queations were asked and there ms little or no discussion on the part of the members of the Joint Committee on the xtra-territoriality issue. The following other matters were however mentioned.