No Desire to Take the Lead and Try to Get Ahead of Anybody Else in China: it Austen Chamberlain's Statement London, July 80.
In reply to questions in the House of Commons this afternoon Sir Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, stated that recently he received visits from General Hu Han-min and Mr. Sun Fo, with whom he had friendly conversations of a general nature regarding the relations existing, between Great Britain and China.
Sir Austen added that he hoped the Nationalist authorities would now settle the Nanking Incident.
In reply to a question regarding' the negotiations between China and the United States and the possibility of Brita, America and the other Powers simultaneously recognizing the Nanking Government, the Foreign Secretary said that as the United States had already acted without consultation with the other Powers in signing a treaty with China it was impossible for those /Powors to act in concert with them in connection with measures for: simultaneous recognition of the tionalist Government.
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