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from two years' figures alone.

I expect you have heard that we wrote to the Foreign Office officially asking them to approach the Scerican Goverment on the

subject of the date for the Fur Estern Conference, and inform them that it would be difficult for the British, Goverment to be ready so

Morsionally soon as July next year, the date proposed by the 'Council of the

Lea Le and to ascertain whether the American Government would concur

in ostponement till October. The American Government are not as

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a matter of fact, I think, taking part in the Far Eastern Conference,

but they are interested in the question of date because the other

conference, in which they are greatly concerned, is to follow

immediately after.

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In order to be able to take an

effective part at the proposed Conference

of Powers with Far Eastern Territories

(which will probably take place next summer), it is essential that the British

delegation should be fully acquainted

with the local conditions of the Far

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