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The Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
has asked to see Sir R. Craigie tomorrow morning
probably to talk about this incident.
I understand that the Foreign Office are
sending a provisional telegram to Sir R. igie
instructing him to say, should the Minister for
Foreign Affairs broach the subject, something to the
effect that he cannot believe that his Government
would be content with a purely local settlement.
A.N. Galsworld
22.2.39
Mr Ronald telephoned to me that F.0. we e sending
an immediate telegram to Sir R. Craigie, roughly to the effect that H.M.G. could not accept a purely local settlement of this affair, and emphasising our protest. I gathered that F.0. thought that the terms of settlement in (9)
might be regarded as acceptable, provided that they were expressed in a formal communication from
the Japanese Government and did not merely
form the subject of a local exchange of notes.
I suggested that F.0. should also point out that
on the occasion of the infringement of the boundary by Japanese troops the line of the boundary was clearly pointed out to them, and that there could be no excuse for the aviators
being, at this date, ignorant of the actual boundary.
No action on our part is required at the moment.
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