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The French Embassy to the Department of State70
Information From Paris—November 6th, 1931
The Chinese Government has declared its readiness to comply with the Resolution of the Council of the League of Nations of October 24th, especially with its article 4.
[Page 387]The latter provides for the obligation for China, in view of taking control over the territories evacuated by the Japanese, to take the necessary steps to preserve security, representatives of other powers being duly attached to the Chinese authorities appointed for that purpose.
The Chinese Government has therefore convened a committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Wellington Koo and has indicated to the foreign ministers in China, that the appointment of the representatives, provided for in article 4, should be made and their names given as soon as possible.
The French Government has instructed the French minister in China to answer to the Chinese Government, as his British colleague has done, that the French representatives will be ready to go when their presence is required and when the other powers have appointed their respective representatives.
Furthermore, the French Government has authorized Mr. Wilden to give to the Chinese the names of its eventual representatives as soon as his colleagues are instructed to do likewise.
It is a matter of interest that this attitude which befits the present situation should be adopted by the other powers./.
- Memorandum received by the French Embassy from M. Briand; formal translation received in the Department November 7.↩