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FROM HR NOM
Telegram (en clair) from bir B.
Phipps (Paris).
D. 20th October, 1937.
(By Bag)
R.
21st October, 1937.
12:
No. 628. (Saving).
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Your telegram No. 212 Saving of October 18th.
I feel sure that it will be useless for me to continue pressing Monsieur Léger about the supply of arms, etc., to China over French railways in Indo-China.
Do you wish me to make a strong appeal to Monsieur Delbos in the matter? If so re must be prepared for him to ask whether, in the event of a Japanese attack on the French lines, Great Britain would be ready to assure military support to France.
In the present acute state or tension in the editerrane an
I have less hope than ever of persuading the French to allow geners transit over their lines to China despite the danger of arousing
Japanese hostility.