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To FRANCE.
Cypher telegram to Sir E. Phipps (Paris).
Foreign Office. 27th May, 1939.
7.00 p.m.
No. 207.
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207
Your telegram No. 313 Saving [of 20th May: Japanese threat to Legation Quarter Peking].
You will see from my immediately following telegram repeating Washington telegram to me No. 237 that the United
States Government are not disposed to take parallel action
in this matter.
2. Please inform the French Government of the substance
of what Sir R. Lindsay says and enquire whether they agree
with me that the absence of United States support for a joint
Franco-British démarche on a matter of this sort could not
fail to be remarked on by the Japanese Government who might
well on this account be tempted first to administer a snub
in reply and then to proceed to give actual effect to a plan
which they may only be very tentatively considering at present.
If the French Government share these apprehensions, I should be prepared to abandon for the present any idea of representa-
tions on this subject or, if they prefer it and can advance
argumentslikely to prove convincing to the State Department, I
should be prepared to instruct Sir R. Lindsay in concert with
his French colleague to endeavour to induce the United States
Government to reconsider their attitude.
Repeated to Tokyo No. 246.
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