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C.O.

LETTER

SENT

DRAFT AND RECORD COPY

REGISTERED No.

15 84

DATE

54064/41.

URGENT.

Downing Street, 9.7.1. 25th January, 1941.

DRA T

MR. Gent 24

MR.

MR..

To

25/1

ENCLOSURES

FURTHER ACTION

f

Dear Brenan,

Foreign Office note of 24th January F.215/98/10. We agree with (1) the draft telegram to Sir A. Clark Kerr and (2) the note to the Chinese Ambassador subject to the following:-

(1) Line 9. "7th November" should

be "9th November".

I also suggest omitting the words "and leniently" in line 19.

(2) In the middle of paragraph 3 "personalities" might better be "personages".

Would you repeat to Hong

Kong the telegram to Sir A. Clark

Kerr.

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd, G.E.J. Gent.

SIR JOHN BRENAN, K.C.M.G.

(6094) Wt. 25403-118 40,000 ea. 2 sorts 9/40 T.8. 695

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