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From FRANCE,
Telegram (en clair) from Sir E. Phipps (Paris).
D. By Bag.
No. 714.
R.
Saving.
November 20th 1937.
November 20th 1937.
November 22nd 1937.
The linister for Foreign Affairs tells me that he received the visit this morning of the Chinese Ambassador, who seemed very depressed, and asked whether Monsieur Delbos advised China to address herself to the League of Nations, in view of the probable failure of the Brussels Conference to obtain any redress for her.
Monsieur Delbos told Hr. Wellington oo that his advice was to avoid the League, which would be unable to give any practical assistance to China, and to stick to Brussels, where at least the United States was present, however disinclined to help it might be.
In this connexion onsieur Delbos referred to the
conversations that he had at Brussels with you and Mr. Norman Davis regarding the vexed question of the supply of arms and munitions over French Railways in Indo-China. He repeated his fears about possible acts of sabotage by Japanese agents against those railways and even the bombing of them by Japanese aircraft, the possible occupation of Hainan and the Paracel Islands, and finally the unfriendly feeling of Diam towards France. NO arguments of mine could shake him, and I
feel
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