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F.0. Minute.
Date: 27th March,
1939.
Chinese Proposal for Joint Action by Powers interested
in the Far East.
Records conversation of Chinese Ambassador with the Secretary of State, in which the former, on instructions from his Government, put forward proposals for joint action by the Powers most interested in the Far East against continued Japanese aggression.
1.
Last Paper.
References.
(Print.)
(How disposed of.) Letter 13 Sir H. Sheer home Sir G. Nonnsey)
11.4.39.
Despatch to Shanghai
No. 30%, of 13.4.34. Copy thered under P.L despatches to:-
Tohjo, No. 261 Washington, No. 345
4.39
Berlin, No. 7491 Rame No. 589 17.4.39 Noscow No. 286
for furth
(Action completed.)
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a Index.)
Minutes.
See also 2265242772/10.
I do not think that I can add much to my minute
on F 2882/2882/10.
China is so weak in a military sense and so
disrupted by the Japanese campaign that the suggestion
for immediate staff conversations seems rather unreal;
it would also be dangerous, for while China can do
nothing to protect us against Japan, the proposed action
would inflame the Japanese against us in a region
where we also are particularly weak. The Chine se
request may, I think, be regarded as a rather naïve
attempt to involve us in the present struggle with
Japan regardless of our own difficulties in a future European war.
An immediate and practical method of helping
China in her military campaign would be to expedite the
air mission for which Chiang Kai-shek is pressing. Our
last letter to the Air Ministry on the subject was sent on March 3rd (F 1751/362/10) urging that the proposal should receive immediate and sympathetic consideration.
A reply has not yet been received.
As regards economic co-operation, H.M. Government
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