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116. Mr. Seel

1. I intercepted this file because Mr. Scarlett of the Foreign Office sent me over this morning the draft of a telegram which he had prepared to Nanking on the instructions of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (copy at No.115), and said that Mr. Bevin proposed to discuss this draft with Mr. Creech Jones this morning.

2. We saw the Secretary of State and Mr. Rees-Williams this morning, before they went over to Mr. Bevin, and suggested some textual amendments to the draft. The Secretary of State said that it was his intention to try to get Mr. Bevin to drop the Consulate-General proposal in paragraph 6 of the draft and Mr. Rees-Williams proposed to put forward the suggestion that the site should be made into a Garden of Remembrance, dedicated to all those, irrespective of nationality who gave their lives in the war against the Japanese.

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