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with the Chinese Government and that if they were not prepared to agree to such an understanding, we would have to reconsider the whole thing.

Lymank

28.2.48.

Since dictating the above, Mr. Scarlett has informed me that the Foreign Office consider that the question whether paragraph 3 of the joint public statement should be retained in the draft as presented to the Chinese should be left to the discretion of our Ambassador. I raised no objection to this, provided that the Ambassador was told that if he decided to mit the paragraph it should be made clear to the Chinese Government that we regarded an agreement on the question of law and order, etc., as an essential part of the arrangement outlined in the draft statement. Mr. Scarlett agreed to amend in this respect and on one or two other points a draft telegram which had been prepared to Nanking and which he communicated to me over the telephone. He was hoping to get this telegram off to-day.

དེ་རྣམ་པས་རྣམ་པ་རྒྱ་ཚིག

28.2.48.

Sur T.Lloyd

M. Rees Williams.

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