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Decypher.
Mr. Lampson (Hankow),
10th December, 1926.
D.
6.00 p.m. 10th December, 1926.
R.
6.15 p.m. 10th December, 1926.
No. 5.
I had interview of an hour and a half on evening
of December 9th with Eugene Chen who had just arrived
from Klukiang. Latter was sticky at first but thawed
a bit later.
After usual dissertation on community of interests
of our two peoples, our friendly sentiments towards
China as officially stated with your authority at the
China Association dinner etc., I asked if he would
state what the aims of his government really were in
order that we might see how far our respective points
of view tallied or were capable of adjustment.
He at once asked whether I was speaking official-
ly and with authority. I replied that my visit to
him had full authority but that what I was saying and
the way I said it he had better consider as informal
and as not binding on my government: I would regard his observations in the same way but for information of His Majesty's Government. We were establishing contact and speaking as men to man. I wished to deal with this question as a realist in the hope that something concrete would emerge.
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He then said that his government claimed to be nationalist government of China, 1.e. the government of one undivided China. I replied that as a realist that did not strike me as sensible.
Fact was that
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