893.51/2586: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 19, 2.12 p.m.]
3561. Your 6264, December 11, 5 p.m. Foreign Office has received similar advices from Tokyo. Although withdrawal of Japanese [Page 548] reservations, for which it continues to press as hitherto reported, introduces [sic] sine qua non of the proposed loan, the Foreign Office is inclined to consider disbandment of Chinese troops as relatively unimportant especially if elimination of reservations be secured but informs me that the French are strongly inclined to press for disbandment, the first point on which they have assumed so positive a stand.
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Paris informed.