राम
(a) That the recommendations were unanimous,
(b) That the measures worked out by the naval experts
should be made known to the qual d'Orsay beforehand and that
no right of search of french ships was admitted under any
circumstances. (Monsieur de Martel explained that this
probably referred to possible search at Hongkong.)
The Italian Minister said that his instructions
were unchanged.
The Italian Government agreed to the draft
Note but could not commit themselves to naval action. The
Italian Admiral feared that any action taken might be of long
duration and there must be a precise understanding regarding
the type of action proposed before it could be agreed to.
At the same time there was nothing against a discussion of
this point between the Admirals.
The United States Minister regretted that he
appeared to be in a minority of one. The United States
Government did not wish to join either in the proposed Note
or in laval aetion. As to the Hote the U.S. Consul General
in Canton thought the time inopportune for it. But apart
from this the U.S. Government did not wish to join in the
Note and then stop short when it came to naval action.
were unwilling to participate in the latter. The U.S.
Admiral thought that the object could be better reached by
other means than the proposed patrol.
They
Sir M. Lampson asked whether the U.3. Admiral had
any particular measures in mind.
Mr. MacMurray said that the Admiral had various
ideas which did not include a patrol md which he had
presumably talked over with his colleagues. He himself was
not competent to discuss these but he understood that they
included/
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