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and to care for the internees until they had
received repatriation or rehabilitation.
MR. STERNDALZ BENNEW thought we should
proceed on the assumption that Shanghai would
be taken by Chinese troops under United States
aegia and not by the Americane from the se8. If
the latter was the case we could certainly rely
on the Americans but the former seemed more
likely and plans should be made accordingly.
SIR ALL H MUS302 said his understanding
was that the American Red Cross would not be
functioning in China.
HT. DAVIDICI said that the British Red
Cross had asked if they could elp and that
Prisoners of ar Department had drafted a reply
making suggestions but they had not covered
China.
It was decided that the meeting should con-
fine itself to the problem in China since
internees in Japan would certainly be looked
after by the A merican forces.
MN. KITSON said that the British Red Cross
team in Chungking were anxious to draw up a
scheme for a team to go into re-occupied areas
when the time arrived.
MR. STERID ME BEREST said that the Foreign
Office had in mind the despatch of a telegram
to Chungking on general lines saying that we had been actively considering the whole
question of relief and rehabilitation of
British Subjects and suggesting that the
Embassy should get in touch with General
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