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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
267
WASHINGTON,
15th April, 1935.
Excellency,
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of
your note No.89 of 8th April, 1935, in regard to the
export of arms to Chine, in which you outline the steps
which your Government las taken with a view to obtaining
practical uniformity of procedure on the part of all the
governments concerned. You state that the replies of the
Belgian Swiss Governmerts to the inquiries addressed to
those governments have been unsatisfactory and express the
hope that this Government would see its way to instruct its
representative in Brussels and Bern to support the renewed
representations which have been made by the British
representatives in those two capitals.
I have the honor to inform you that the Department
is instructing the representatives of this Government at
Brussels and Bern to acoperate with their British colleagues
with a view to obtaining practical uniformity of procedure
by all the governments concerned in the matter of the
export of arms to China,
Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my
highest consideration,
For the Secretary of State:
(Signed) WILLIAM PHILLIPS.
His Excellency
The Honorable
Sir Ronald Lindsay, P.C., G.C.M.G., K. C.Br C.V.O.,
British Ambassador.