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and I think I quite satisfied him that I personally
am as sympathetic as a newcomer can be. I found
him a delightful man of considerable penetration.
He fitted an epithet to the vousponsible and inaffactual N.L. Smitte that impressed me by its aptress. The called him flibburtigibbet and that sums up the charming but Exasperating fallow very well.
There are not many matters at issue
between us and Chungking. I telegraphed some
time ago about the suppression of the Wang Ching
Wei newspapers here and, as I mentioned in that
telegram, the desire to please Chungking is one
of the motives though not the only one. I have
not yet had an answer to this telegram.
Another matter, which was I believe
the main cause of both Clark Kerr and Dr. Quo
thinking us unsympathetic, is the question of
a Chinese Consul General for Hong Kong. I am
just about to answer you on the subject of the
very clever reply which was returned to Northcote's
'stipulations' (afterwards amended to read
'expressions of hope'). My comment is not
particularly sympathetic, but I think that in
actual fact the Hong Kong Government has given
Gaigie Prally
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