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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck)
In accordance with the Secretary’s suggestion,39 and after consulting him in confirmation, I informed Mr. Butler that we would be very glad to have our Consul General at Singapore given by the British authorities there any information regarding the proceedings which they would like to have communicated to us: we would not wish to have the Consul General participate in the conference.
At the same time I asked Mr. Butler whether he had been informed of the fact that the United States Navy has sent an officer to Singapore for the purpose of keeping in touch with the proceedings. Mr. Butler said that he had been informed of that. I said that I supposed we might consider that this would take care substantially of what the British Foreign Office had suggested. Mr. Butler replied that it so seemed to him.