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Memorandum by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs (Hamilton) of a Conversation With the First Secretary of the British Embassy (Broadmead)
Mr. Broadmead telephoned at 3:50 p.m. and said that the British Ambassador had asked him to communicate certain information to Mr. Hornbeck and that in Mr. Hornbeck’s absence he would like to communicate the information to Mr. Hamilton. Mr. Broadmead continued that the British Embassy had received a cable from the British Foreign Minister in which Mr. Eden had expressed his thanks for the message which Mr. Hull had communicated to him last night; that the British Ambassadors in China and in Japan had been instructed to make an approach to the Chinese and the Japanese Governments along the lines indicated in paragraphs 5 and 6 of the memorandum which the British Ambassador had left with Mr. Hornbeck on the afternoon of July 13; that the British Ambassadors in China and in Japan had been told not to make their approach as an Anglo-French joint approach; that the British representatives would make their approach independently and after making the approach would inform the French, who would then be in position to take similar but independent action if they should so desire.
Mr. Hamilton thanked Mr. Broadmead for this message.