No. F 8042/828/10.
214
FOREIGN OFFICE, S. 1.
4- DEC 1942
My dear
Ambassador.
Many thanks for your letters of the 28th and
30th November concerning extraterritoriality.
With regard to the suggestion made in the
second message enclosed in your letter of the 28th
November, we readily concur in the proposal that the
Netherlands Foreign Minister should be furnished in
strict confidence with the revised texts of the
draft treaty. I shall arrange for a copy of our
revised text to be communicated to Dr. van Kleffens.
We have also been approached several times by the
Norwegian Government who have informed the Chinesc
Government of their support of the declarations made
to the Chinese by the United States Government and
ourselves on the 9th October and are anxious to
negotiate forthwith a treaty of their own.
Provided
the Department of State see no objection I shall also
furnish the Norwegian Government with a copy of the
revised text.
His Excellency
The Honourable
John G. Winant.
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