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with a view to parallel representations by your French and American colleagues (latter in connexion with Peking only).

The American Government have, I am aware, already made

representations and received an assurance regarding the

International Settlement at Shanghai, but parallel action by

them in the North would be of the greatest value in view of

the fact that Japanese pressure may ultimately prove strongest

there.

Repeated to Shanghai No. 389 and Washington No. 223, and

to Paris No. 206 Saving en clair, by bag.

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