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Registry No
FITTH 2880/10
F3777
19 APR 1939
18th April, 1939.
28
Draft.
Sir A. Clark Kerr, |Sir,
Shanghai.
No. 339
The Chinese Ambassador called on me this
morning and said he wished to draw my attention
to a question which Mr. Arthur Henderson was
to put to the Prime Minister, in the House of
asking whether Commons to-morrow as to whether H. M. Government
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would bear in mind the desirability of
including China and other Far Eastern countries
King, Cabinet and
Dominions.
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APR
in any combination of
Governments for the
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purpose of resisting aggression.
question, he said, had been telegraphed to
China and his Government had instructed him to
express the hope that as sympathetic a reply as
possible could be returned, or anyhow one
which would not appear too discouraging.
promised to bear in mind what His Excellency
had said when I came to look at the draft no doubt answer, which would be submitted to me during
the course of the day.
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2. His Excellency said that he had duly
informed his Government of the reply given
through Sir George Mounsey to the enquiry which
he had been instructed to make three weeks ago
about the possibility of joint action by Powers
interested in the Far East.
The Chinese
Government were grateful for this reply and
recognised that H. M. Government could not go
further/
F.Q. REGISTRY.
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