authorities in hope of peaceful settlement.
(b) United States Minister though personally
favourable must as usual seek instructions and was
not optimistic.
(c) French Representative was inclined to be
nervous as to practicability of proposal hence our
telegram to Senior Consul.
(d) Danes and Norwegians wondered how they would
be protected seeing that they have no naval or military
forces present. We agreed that was a point to go into
later when we reached practical stage.
I begged my colleagues to impress on their
governments necessity of prompt action. If we could
stifle tonnage surtax promptly it was almost certain
that we should hear little more of the other dues
threatened for September 1st.
Addressed to Foreign Office, repeated to Tokyo,
Shanghai, Hongkong end Commander-in-Chief.
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