With the Compliments of the
Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
13 NOV 1942
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1 2 NOV 1942
In your letters of the 28th betover end the 1st lovember
you sated for our observations on two messages from the
Department of Utate dated the 27th and 31st october reisting
to our draft treaties on extraterritoriality in Chine.
I now enclose a statement of our views on the pointe
rised which I should be very grateful i you would convey
to the Department of Stṛte.
n the difficult question « coastalɛnë inlɛnd navigɛtion
we feel strongly the desirability of postponing precise
arrangements until we come to negotiste comprehensive trasties
on a reciprocɛl basis. if we seeɛ to be somewhat insistent
...n this point you will understand that it is in part becotaɛ&
our interest in these trades in Chine is, in normal times,
very great greater perhaps than that of any other foreign
@over excepi Jepan and that the subject is therefore for
His Nzoellenay
The Honourable
John G. winant.
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