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500.C1197/717: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Bingham ) to the Secretary of State

London , May 4, 1934—noon.
[Received May 4—8:35 a.m.]

223. Department’s telegram No. 132, April 2, 9 p.m.

1.
At a conference held May 3 between representatives of the Foreign Office and of the Embassy and Delevingne11 and Fuller it was agreed that the course to follow will be to send a noncommittal acknowledgment to the League stating that the Minister for Foreign Affairs will furnish such information concerning the traffic in Manchuria as can properly be furnished.
2.
It was further agreed that it will be expedient and advisable to limit the information so furnished to that which has been published in Manchurian gazettes or newspapers and to refrain from handing over consular reports.
3.
Home Office will recommend this course to the Foreign Office which will undoubtedly act accordingly.
4.
The Embassy will inform the Department by mail when the British acknowledgment goes forward to Geneva.
Bingham
  1. Sir Malcolm Delevingne, British member of the Opium Advisory Committee.↩