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Decypher.
FROM CHINA.
Sir M. Lampson. (Nanking on tour).
April 24th. 1931.
D.
April 24th. 1931.
R.
9.00.p.m. April 24th. 1931.
No. 119.
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Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs who has been actively engaged in lobbying United States Minister to-
day informed him that Minister for Foreign Affairs was so optimistic regarding British negotiations that he wished to know whether United States Government, who it was hoped would sign simultaneously with us desired to sign treaty here or in Washington:
ture might come at any time now.
moment for signa-
(2) I have so far refrained from taking up with Minister for Foreign Affairs the question of Dominions on the assumption that this will be covered in draft preamble which I still await (see my telegram No. 109). I informed (gr.undec.) I did not see how we could in any case do more now than initial agreed texts: nor so far as I could judge was agreement regarding areas in sight. Minister for Foreign Affairs had made no move since my interview of April 18th (see my telegram No. 107).
Addressed to Foreign Office No. 119 April 24th; repeated to Peking.
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