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the hope that the British authorities are right in assuming 
      that the undertaking which this statement gives to "the 
      British and Dutch Governments" in connexion with % the destruction 
      of the North Borneo oil fields also supplies to all parts of 
      the British Empire which may be affected by the destruction of 
      those oil fields/
 
      
 
 
BRITISH EMBASSY,
 
      WASHINGTON, D.C.
 
      December 29th, 1941.