793.003/129: Telegram
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Dawes) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 17—8:55 a.m.]
196. Yesterday, in an informal meeting with the British Foreign Secretary, I asked Henderson for an expression of his China policy, particularly in regard to extraterritoriality. At present, he said, the Labor Government had no change of policy in mind. He added, [Page 593] however, that the Chinese situation was in a state of such flux that the possibility must be borne in mind of new considerations arising and modifying the present attitude of Great Britain. Except for this statement, there was nothing he said to contravene in any way the Embassy’s previous two telegrams.