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2.

threw out a hint that he would not object to a verbal

notification in the sense of the note. As there was

nothing to be gained by pursuing the matter further

we left it at that and Article 22 will have to be left

in the air in any sort of provisional understanding

that we may now reach in regard to body of agreed

text.

Addressed to Foreign Office No. 251, repeated to

Peking.