The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.
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Eighteen years ago a war broke out between England and China, which might have been avoided by an agent residing in the capital of China.Townsend Harris
The English Government hopes to hold the same kind of intercourse with Japan as she holds with other nations, and is ready to make war with Japan.
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If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.
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It will be quite satisfactory if you open them gradually, as the circumstances may require; but the President assures you that this will not be the case if you make a treaty with England first.
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As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.
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It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.
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