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From Nanking to Foreign Office No. 787

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7. Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeh particularly asked me to treat his statements quoted in paragraph 3 of this telegram as strictly personal and confidential, I undertook to ensure that he would not be quoted. He agreed however to my reporting as reply to this formal enquiry to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that no definite reply could be forthcoming pending the return of the Minister for Foreign Affairs,

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