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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Secretary of State
12:30 Meeting with the President
I reported to the President that to the best of our information and that of the British Embassy in Washington the British were not convoying or escorting vessels into and out of Shanghai. I understood that they had a naval vessel off the mouth of the Yangtze, instructions of which were to aid British vessels if attacked, and that so far I knew of no case where one had been attacked. As soon as the Embassy received [Page 1149] the message from London getting specific information on this matter, the President would be informed of it.