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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.

(F 3776/2882/10)

OUT FILE

24th April, 1939.

my

dear

Ronnie

In his despatch No. 473 Secret, of the 18th April,

the Ambassador reported that you had been asked by

Monsieur Chauvel what was meant by the reference to the

possible necessity for His Majesty's Government to cut

their losses in the Far ast in the verbal communication

which you made to him on receipt of our despatch No.892

Secret, of the 14th April. The French are so liable

to distort what we say and to leak that we think it

might be well, the next time you get a favourable

opportunity, to point out to Monsieur Chauvel or

Monsieur Charvériat that whatever you said based on the

third and fourth sentences of paragraph 6 of our

despatch to Shanghai No.308 referred to a remote

possibility and should by no manner of means be regarded

as an indication of a fixed and adopted policy.

Yours ever

R.I. Campbell, Esq., C.B., C.M.G.

Paris.

(Sd.) N. 5. RONALD,

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