CO129-517-7 Draft Commercial Treaty with China- Governor's action 14-3-1929 - 25-7-1929 — Page 33

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of their general plan of Treaty

Revision by slow and safe stages.

As regards the actual

conduct of the negotiations with the

The Foreign

Chinese Government, Sir M. Lampson

Office pant dut-

That

alone is responsible,

nless that

position is fully understood by all

officers of His Majesty's Government

and unless the highly confidential

character of the instructions which are

sent to Sir M. Lampson in connection

with such negotiations is recognised and

scrupulously respected by all to whom the

tenor of any such instructions may have

been communicated, the public interest

is liable to suffer injury. The action

taken by you on the receipt of the copy

of the Foreign Office despatch containing

His Majesty's Government's instructions

to Sir M. Lampson and referred to have

a

paragraph 2, appeared to the Foreign Office

to be inconsistent with those well-established

principles and they cannot but regard as

unfortunate