CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919 — Page 396

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copy of letter Lent to Fr. Iloyd George

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ISSION CORDONNE 36907

38, Rue de Châteaudun, PIRIS (9) REC

Sir.

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I have the honour to submit for your perusel a copy of the claim, of the Korean People and lution for liberation from Jepun, which my Delegation has flied with the Prece Conference,

The claim has been cast in the form of a Petition, with a Memorandum attached setting forth e series of facts and views in support of our claim for the reconstitution of Korea as an inde- pendent state. Sections 1 tion of the important foot-notes on pages 2 and 5

15 are a fummary - with the excep- cipal points developed in the Demorandum, tion deals with matter untouched in the lemorandum.

of the prin- The rest of the Feil.

In a letter to President Wilson, Sections XVIII I of the emorandum would be found to summarise ventured to suggest that and re-state current views in the Far Bos hich ought to be ud. ply interesting to the President both s an Aerican Batesuun and as one who thinks of and for the future.

by I be permitted, Sir, also to suggest that those viero should prove equally interesting to you as a political leader Those aim and purpose must look to the security of Englend as .. Asiatic power and to the inucnance and consolidation of Brit. power and influence on the Pacific ?

ly point will be better understood if I transcribe here tre concluding sentences of my lotter to the President :

"Test the urgencies of the moment should prevent you from glancing rt those sections of the Momorr ndum. Im hoping to tempt your in- tellectual quriority by a quotation from Section II which briefly indicates, in the corse of a definition, & policy of empire unm.thehed in its sweep of corception since the crumbling of Rome : Ctinental folicy rims, firts, at the scizure of the hegemony of Japan's Asic through the DOTINATION AND CONTROL OF THE ILN-POWER AND NATURAL RESOURCES OF CETNA continental point d'appui of Korec.

possible only by the Japanese possession of the THE PACIFIC OCEAN AS MET SOLE ZRANS OF FORCING AN ENTRANCE FOR

end, next, at the ASTERY OF JAPANESE EIGRFTS INTO THE RICH LANDS OF DHE AUSTRALIAS AND THE P'CIFIC SEMBOʻRD OF THE UNITED STATES.*

"I ho amodar Leator that this policy is reality".

I may add that the emorandum shows the Japan's Continental Policy has received it latest expression in the "Japanese poses- sion of the "Southsea Islands north of the Equator" which briner JAPAN NEARLY TWO THOUSAND KILES OLOSER TO AUSTRALI¦ und gives the Japanese Navy a base which dominates, practically, the entire lund-areas of the Pacific".

I have the huauur ta be.

gir, Your most obedient,

Right Honourable

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humble servant,

For the Korean Telegation. Signé) John KIUSIC 90EO KIML.

David Lloyd George, 3.P.

etc. etc. 23, Rue Nitot, Paris.