CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12] — Page 389

20th May.1926 380

My dear Chamberlain,

I have just been shown a foreign Vffice draft telegram in which it is suggested that Willingdon's mission abould, in spite of clementi's strong protests, visit centon Thile the anti-British boycott of Long Kang is still going on, the apparent justification being that the mission is not concerned with "loc-l politics". I must say this seems to me a really fantastic view to take, and almost more then whinese in ila make-believe that the deliberate hostility of Canton to ourselves is merely a matter of "local politics" which we hould ignore in our schemes for distributing money in Chim. It is bad enough our beving had to sit down without taking drastic nation to punish Canton for its flagrant violation

Tour treaty rights, but surely the very least we can do is o make it clear to Canton that it can expect no thing from Willingdon Lission while it is in its present frame of ind. The Mission qught to go to ong Kong - it would be strous ifit didn't - and i hope you will ineist on its bing 80.

I cannot understand what Willingdon means by saying

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