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Show WILL RESUME EFFORT FOR AIDING POLAND American Government to Take Steps to Make Possible Possi-ble Further Negotiations. LONDON, Aug. 7, 5:55 p. m. The foreign for-eign office tomorrow will send a memorandum memo-randum to Walter Ilines Page, the American Amer-ican embassador, which will leave the way open for a resumption of the negotiations nego-tiations for feeding the civilian populations popula-tions of the German occupied areas, the conditions for which as laid down by Great Britain were recently rejected by Germany. The memorandum will suggest that the United States government cannot reopen re-open the qnestion it it regards such a step advisable and useful. Germany's reply rejecting the British offer, which has already been published in the United Stales, and Great Britain's reply thereto, will be made public here within a few days. The British reply will deny the contentions of Germany that the British proposals were too long delayed de-layed and that owing to favorable crop prospects relief action could apparently be dispensed with after October 1, and also that the next harvest would provide for the needs of the people with the exception ex-ception of certain periods, when their condition would be straightened. The reply will say that the first con-j con-j tentlon is so false that it is unworthy of dealing with in discussion and that re- ports in the possession of the British government gov-ernment refute the latter. I The British reply, which leaves a resumption re-sumption of negotiations to the judgment , of the United States, doubtless will be received with grateful surprise in Polish , relief circles, as the note outlining the i original British proposals stated that a rejection re-jection of them would end the negotia-! negotia-! tions. j Discussing this phase of the situation today, an official of the foreign office told j the Associated Press that the offer to j resume the negotiations would be made I in good Taith, but that no assurance could be given that the British proposals could I be made again on tiie former basis, since the government had been informed that 1 the Germans were already taking the har-, har-, vests in the occupied areas, i This official added that the policy of the British foreign office was to give encouragement en-couragement to some plan under which a neutral commission could provide relief for civilians in the occupied areas as a precedent which would make a distinct advance tending to soften the hardships of non-combatant populations. |