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BANKING.

March ist, 1981.

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The U... Kinister enlied at the Consulate at à Bolle

Be He brought with him a telegram from the atate DepartMENT showing that negotiɛtions with the Chinese Minister in Washington on Extra-terri teri ality bad rezobed a dancắm 18k and stated mecifically that the Amerisan DoverPramont nav proposed to call a halt and to leave me a free fisid ta go aboud with my negotiatione here in žanking. rend Jakaven the gist of the instructions foreshadowed in a telegram sent to the Dominions on February 14th, impre«sing on him that these might well be varied in their final form to me, I told him of my interview with G.T. Hơng this morning, whom I had informed about the nen-ressipt of my inatrustionsj and

then bed a

general di nouɛsion regarding the eam:arative value of our various safeguard». I said that in my opinion in no sireuma tandes

ommission of Changhei

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- and by shanghai I meant ta

hanghai and not merely the International

Settlement. He said that he entirely agreed. If it were a question of the exeiusion of the sttlement only, be felt himself that it would be entirely unworkable and that it would even be better t give that up rather than to have one ares in Shanghai exeluded from Chẳngae Juri adi e ti on sad the other subject to it. The confusi an that would arise from any such ɛrrangement would be un believable; in fast, it would be quite workable.

1 told him I

se in oase doubt si

ov 1 shou2

hradle those delicate discussions.

hed, as I thought very prematurely from the tactical

point of view, slready thrown in evocation:

that left

trade ia în return

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