CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943 — Page 206

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It is understood that the abolition

f the sisters

wat affect the

Treat Porti will

exciting propert, righti

By that naturines of each Hef. will end of

the right to maquine

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laws regated t

&

H.X. Ambassador,

No.

"Text"

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CHUNGKING.

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re.. No.76. B. But Fo (huising. semmaning text wist cand

Felegraphing Textually.

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our

to present text in the first place.

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& cold real property then It!. muly cut the

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FA.

December

/42

Your telegram No. 1615 of the 30th

November]

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The text which we had prepared and which

we should have liked to secure if it were

possible is contained in my immediately

following telegram. As you will observe,

would

India will not participate in this text, and

it is probable that surga will not be able to

do so either. it is moreover peded round

on our siden with three qualifications of no substantial

importance.

2.

I realise that it is unlikely you

will be able to obtain agreement for this

Sor

text and you have full discretion/to outain

the best text which you căn, our view being

that any mention of future rights to acquire

real property is probably better than nothing.

The text proposed in paragraph 2 of your

telegram No. 1615 is the absolute minimua

because the words 'subject to the Laws and

regulations etc." mean, taken literally, that

these laws may prohibit the right to acquire

* real property altogether. An improvement

on your formula would be to Buy: "in

accordance (witn the conditions and requirements

prescribed in the laws and regulations etc."

Another and, from our point of view, better

formula vould be to say:

hold real

property as far as possible under the aaue

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conditions/

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