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H. E, will perhaps be able to take
of a conversation with Mr. Hull or
Welles to raise this point,
2. It is perhaps just worth recording
that Mr. Adams of the Far Eastern Division of
the State Department said yesterday that his,
and apparently the Division's, preliminary re-
action about the affect of the Russian war on
the Par East was that it should make it possible
to "freeze" Japan in their present position.
She would not wish to start an adventure to the
South when the possibilities of an attack on
the I.aritime provinces in Siberia seem^good.
On the other hand it should be possible to pre-
vent her making such an attack by keeping her
guessing as to our intentions.     We ought to
start putting pressure on her aj|r Indo-China
and elsewhere to make her thinR^if she attacked
Russia she would expose her rear*     When I
asked Mr. Adams whether the Department were con-
sidering any concrete steps to this end he re-
plied in the negative.
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