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Sir R. Craigie (Tokyo).
January 1st 1938.
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Your telegrams os. 608 and 611.
If and when you wish me to take this matter up with
Japanese Government I would propose subject to your
approval to communicate report informally to Ministry of
Foreign Affairs in the first place and, while reserving
right of His lajesty's Government to make an official
communication at a later stage or publish report or any part
of it, enquire what observations Japanese authorities have
to offer. I should of course indicate very grave view which we
take of the matter.
if you decide to publish report you may eventually
think it desirable to publish at the same time any comments
Japanese may make to me.