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Proposal which you now put forward is one which
has been pressed on heads of legations by Mr. Barton but rejected after careful consideration, see ny telegram No. 167 of June 26th, and 181 June 30th, on which you made no comments. We unanimously felt that such a proceeding would indefinitely delay settlement and that proposed commission having no legal status could only make recommendations which would have no binding value. Also no commission which included Chinese could be expected to reach unanimous decision while exclusion of Chinese would
merely provoke hostile critician from Chinese. Your
proposal to establish new international court of enquiry amounts of course to rejecting conclusions of heads of legations and denying them authority to recommend administrative measures in their efforts
to deal with the whole political situation. I must-
wern you that if I am instructed to suggest this
procedure to heads of legations there will be an
immediate rupture of solidarity and a renewal of
demand that His Majesty's Government should deel
with whole question by themselves, I have consulted
my United States colleague and he has authorized me
to say that he takes the same view of the result
of proposal.
In the meantime you will see from my succeeding
telegrams that as a result of message reported in
my telegram No. 214 municipal council are prepared
to
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