SECRET.
FOR SECRET RECORD IN THE DEPT.
R
Esthoud
15/10/36.
CABINE T 57(36).
EXTRACT from Conclusions of a Meeting of the Cabinet
held on Wednesday, the 14th October, 1936.
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CHINA.
Financial Mission to.
(Previous Reference: Cabinet 3
(36), Con- clusion 6.)).
14.
The Cabinet had before them a Joint Note by
the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the President
of the Board of Trade (C.P.-251(36)) circulating
for the consideration of their colleagues a Report
by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, prepared at their
request, summarising his impressions and suggestions
on the conclusion of his recent Mission to China.
The Cabinet agreed:
(a) That Sir Frederick Leith-Ross
recent report should be referred to the Cabinet Committee on Political and Economic Relations with Japan.
(b) That the Secretary of State for the Colonies should be added to the
Committee for the purposes of the Inquiry.