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The Department of State to the British Embassy 33
As the views of our two Governments coincide, that dissolution of the China Consortium at this time would not be advantageous or generally helpful, it is suggested that the British Foreign Office use its influence with the British Group (or the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) to the end that a difference of opinion which has developed between the American Group and the British Group (or the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) over the question of the amount of a service fee be adjusted upon a fair and reasonable basis and be not permitted to become a possible cause or contributory cause leading to a dissolution of the Consortium.
- Handed to the Counselor of the British Embassy by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck) on August 29 as an informal memorandum of an oral statement.↩