of an informal understanding that there would be
no publicity for a period of 10 to 15 days after
the visit of any ship. A restriction of this
sort would make it less likely that visits would
be exploited by the Chinese in such a way that
the vernor might be obliged to consider
postponing or cancelling other visits.
3. The U.S. Embassy here will not be well briefed
on this subject and we xxx expect that the State
Department and the Pentagon will in any case
approach the Embassy in Washington if we take it
up here.
Grateful therefore if Washington could
now speak to their usual contacts on the lines of
paragraph 2.