EPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON
titA _/'^ July 5, 1940
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My dear Mr. Ambassador:
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The receipt is acknowledged of your letter of
June 28, 19*K) In regard to the evacuation of civilian
refugees from Hong Kong to the Philippine Islands.
With regard to the question raised in the last
paragraph of your letter, I take pleasure in informing
you that we concur in the proposal that detailed arrange-
ments be made directly between the local authorities
in the Philippines and in Hong Kong.    I may add that
when the Department Informed the United States High
Commissioner to the Philippine Islands on July 1 that
it had no objection to the temporary entry of evacuees
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His Excellency
The Right Honorable
The Marquess of Lothian, C. H.,
British Ambassador.
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from Hong Kong, provided that the Philippine authorities
had no objection, it suggested that the High Commissioner
and the Philippine authorities confer with the British
Consul General at Manila,
I am, my dear Lord Lothian,