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Try Dom Parafield.
Foreign Office,
S.W.1.
19th August 1931.
Many thanks for your letter of the 18th of
August enclosing a copy of one from Sir Cecil Clementi about the International Settlement at Shanghai and
our extraterritorial negotiations with China.
I am fully aware of Mr Feetham's views as to the
serious effect on the prospects of the Settlement of an agreement to surrender our extraterritorial rights there after a definite period. The force of his argument is entirely appreciated, and it was most carefully considered before the Cabinet agreed on June 4th to authorise Sir Miles Lampson to accept, subject to subsequent approval by His Majesty's Government, a draft treaty providing
The fact is that there are very for such a surrender.
strong arguments on the other side, and that Mr Feetham's view, while no doubt logically sound, takes insufficient account of the strength of political forces in China.
The Right Honourable
the Lord Passfield.
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