CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942 — Page 90

With the Compliments of the

Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

13 NOV 1942

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In your letters of the 28th betover end the 1st lovember

you sated for our observations on two messages from the

Department of Utate dated the 27th and 31st october reisting

to our draft treaties on extraterritoriality in Chine.

I now enclose a statement of our views on the pointe

rised which I should be very grateful i you would convey

to the Department of Stṛte.

n the difficult question « coastalɛnë inlɛnd navigɛtion

we feel strongly the desirability of postponing precise

arrangements until we come to negotiste comprehensive trasties

on a reciprocɛl basis. if we seeɛ to be somewhat insistent

...n this point you will understand that it is in part becotaɛ&

our interest in these trades in Chine is, in normal times,

very great greater perhaps than that of any other foreign

@over excepi Jepan and that the subject is therefore for

His Nzoellenay

The Honourable

John G. winant.

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