Robert Craigie (diplomat)
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Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, GCMG, CB, PC was the British ambassador in Japan from 1937 to 1941.
Robert Craigie
Tientsin incident
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The Tientsin incident was an international incident created by a blockade by the Imperial Japanese Army's Japanese North China Area Army of the British settlements in the north China treaty port of Ti
Robert Craigie (diplomat)
…ambassador in Japan from 1937 to 1941. In June 1939, on the authority of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Craigie successfully managed to end the Tientsin incident with only limited loss to British prestige. During the course of negotiations with the Japanese, Craigie took advantage of divisions within the Japanese…
British soldiers behind the barbed wire barricade erected by the Japanese around the British and French concessions in Tientsin in June 1939
Barrier erected by Japanese troops around the British and French concessions of Tientsin in the summer of 1939