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made a long speech in support of it. This was the Resolution which was so strongly objected to by the British Commissioners. It was to all intents and

purposes the same as the original Resolution, though it did not use the exact words "Treaty abrogation."

Dr. Tenny and the Chinese were both astounded when Mr. Miyaoka had, at the conclusion of Dr. Tenny's speech, taken exception to the Resolution, claiming that it was out of order, and moved the previous question. This had caused Dr. Tenny to appeal to the Chair against the subterfuge being resorted to by the Japanese, which, he said, was founded on bad faith, or words to that effect. Tang said that Dr. Tenny had used the words "subterfuge and bad faith," having in mind that the Resolution was the one drafted by Miyaoka himself, the one he had on the night previous agreed to support.

I might add that what Tang has told me is borne out in part by what came to me in other ways while at Shanghae. Tang, for example, came to my room with the very Resolution which was taken by the Americans to the Japanese and asked my opinion of it. I pointed out to him clearly that for a body of men chosen to represent Government to talk of abrogation of Treaties was preposterous. Dr. Hamilton Wright, in conversation with me on a later occasion, also spoke of the President and Mr. Root being anxious that a Resolution should be carried which would save China from being at the mercy of opium imports should she eradicate the poppy cultivation in less time than ten years; also that the other matter to which the President and Mr. Root were particularly wedded was the one which asked that the Commission should report in favour of a Conference to be held later to take up the matter further; that it was their intention to have the Conference meet at Washington, and have the Delegates come with power to bind their Governments.

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