Your 873- [1] Japanese Settlement.

If reply has not yet been received from London please make our
position known to State Department. You should inform United
Kingdom Embassy that this is being done.

2. As British Commonwealth Governments have arranged to meet at
Canberra in August to discuss matters connected with the Japanese
settlement, including procedure, any requests for expression of
their views at this stage would presumably meet with the reply
that they wished first to have the benefit of exchange of views at
the Canberra conference. [2]

3. You will note the Minister's statement to-day that the holding
of this conference was in accordance with long established
practice, by which British Commonwealth countries discussed
together, without commitment, matters subsequently to be discussed
at international conferences. He added that this procedure was
well understood by all nations, and had frequently been followed
by other nations, co-operating on a basis of regional or other
special interests.