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Memorandum by the Secretary of State
The French Ambassador called and left the attached memorandum58 in answer to the inquiry I made of the French Government about negotiations with China on the subject of extraterritoriality. [Page 445] He wanted to know if we had had answers from the other governments and I told him we had; that some of them were in writing and some verbal; that as near as I could remember, most of the governments took about the same position that France does but that I had understood that Italy, Belgium and perhaps another country had negotiated a treaty on the tariff similar to our treaty and had also promised to take up the subject of extraterritoriality conditionally; that I did not remember the exact conditions but we had asked those countries for copies of their treaties.