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  6. The Department will await your telegraphic reply before reply-
ing to the Secretary General.
                                                           HULL

500.C1197/717: Telegram
  The Amrbassador in Great Britain (Bingham) to the Secretary
                            of State

                                      LONDON, May 4, 1034-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 For-
eign Office and of the Embassy and Delevingne&quot;11 and Fuller it was
agreed that the course to follow will be to send a noncommittal ac-
knowledgment to the League stating that the Minister for Foreign
Affairs will furnish such information concerning the traffic in Man-
churia 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

500.C1197/717: Telegram
     The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain
                           (Bingham)

                                 WASHINGTON, May 4,1934-5 p. m.
  179. Your 223, May 4, noon. For your confidential information and
for that of Fuller.
  1. The Department perceives no objection to the course of action
outlined in paragraphs 1 and 2 of your telegram under reference pro-
vided the British Government also follows this course.
  2. Upon the receipt of definite information that the British Gov-
ernment has replied to the League in the vein indicated, please tele-
graph the Department and, in your discretion, inform the Foreign

  11 Sir Malcolm Delevingne, British member of the Opium Advisory Committee.


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