H.A.C.
F.0.
December
A 2.
1942.
203
H.M. Ambassador,
Chungking•
No:
(Cypher)
War Cabinet
(134)
(76)
Distribution.
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adreferentum
Your telegram No. 1615 of 30th
November:
acquisition of real property 7.
Text which we had prepared and should
have liked to secure provided that our
nationals and companies should have the right
to acquire and hold rights of all kinds in
real property in China on the same conditions
as Chinese nationals and companies. It would
have been necessary, however, to make the
similar Chinese right subject to certain
minor conditions of licensing procedure in
England and some West Indian colonies and it
would probably have been necessary either to
exclude India and Burma or attach important
reservations which would hardly have enhanced
the value of our proposal from the Chinese
point of view.
8.
While we should have preferred
something on the above lines, you have full
authority to obtain the best text you can, A. it being essential if possible to obtain
The foot and onequisition of to/real
some reference to real property in the
present agreement. But,
Formula suggested in paragraph 2 of
your telegram under reference is the absolute
minima because the words "subject to the laws
and regulations etc." could mean that these
lawa may prohibit the right to acquire real
property altogether.
An improvement on your
formula/
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