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PRISE C
FROM WASHINGTON TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Mr. Balfour
D. 3.46 p.m. 23rd August, 1945.
No. 5782
23rd August, 1945.
R. 9.45 p.n. 23rd August, 1945.
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DEDIF
Your telegram No. 8555 repeating Fresident to Prime Minister No. 6 of August 18th last sentence.
Member of my staff had a word about this sentence with a State Department official who had discussed Byrnes's remark with T.V. Soong himself. Soong apparently took Byrnes to mean not (repeat not) that the United States Government wished to raise the question of the future status of Hong Kong, nor even that the United States Government considered it an open question;
all that was intended, in Soong's opinion, was to state that in the view of the United States Government, military proceeding for the surrender of Hong Kong and political questions
affecting Hong Kong had no connexion with one another.
O.T.P.
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