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any commitment on either side as regards the more remote
future, the next Inspector General, on the retirement of
Sir Frederick Maze, should be British, provided that a new
post of Deputy Inspector General was created and filled by
a Japanese, and that there should be some consultation between
the two Governments as to the persons appointed to these
posts. MR. HORINOUCHI had also suggested that the number
of Japanese officials in subordinate posts should be increased
until there were as many Japanese as British in the Service.
SIR FREDERICK LEIGH-ROSS said that, in the absence of an
early agreement on the subject, the Japanese were likely
to take a more difficult attitude, and he suggested that the
new Ambassador should be authorised to pursue the question
with Mr. Horinouchi and try and get it fixed up. For this
purpose, His Majesty's Government should decide
(1) whether they were content only to settle the
nationality of the Inspector General for the
immediate future:
(2) whether they would agree to the appointment of a
Japanese Deputy Inspector General;
(3) whether they could accept consultation on the persons
to be appointed to these posts:
and (4) whether the Japanese should have as many
officials as ourselves.
He pointed out that agreement to the appointment of a
Japanese as Deputy did not bind His Majesty's Government to
assenting to the succession of the Deputy to the post of
Inspector General in due course. As to Sir Frederick Maze's
successor, the Japanese desired to discuss this no doubt
because they did not wish to see the appointment of a very
young man who would hold the post for many years.
Assuming
that agreement were reached with the Japanese as to our
desiderata, it would be necessary to concert
respective
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