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modification of arrangements.
3. Silver to the value of £100,000 to be
sold to create a fund of relief.
4.
Relief measures to be administered on the
advice of experts who would be appointed by
British and Japanese Governments.
Decision
as to what further sum is required over and
above amount mentioned to be taken on the
advice of these experts.
6. British authorities to co-operate with
Japanese authorities in facilitating sale of
silver.
Vice-Minister stated that blockade
measures would at once come to an end on sig-
nature of the agreement but represented that
agreement should be recorded separately.
Sir R. Craigie advocated that we should try
to reach agreement in view of struggle going on
in Japan between advocates of a rapprochement
respectively with the Soviet Union and the
democracies.
On 4th December Sir R. Craigie had a
further interview with the Vice-Minister for
Foreign/
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