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therefore that you are prepared to include
NONA in such visites in some form. I think that
we must be prepared to commit curselves to this
by telling the Chinese that visits to "patriotic
journalists" will be allowed by their employers
accompanied by a representative of NCNA and, in
addition, that visits by NCNA alone will be
allowed if the employer is unavailable (although
we would hope that this last situation will not
arise).
4. I agree with all the conditions suggested
in the latter part of paragraph 5 of your tele-
gran under reference, although I think it would
be wiser not to insist on a time limit so short
es 15 minutes per visit since we would not wish
the Chinese to insist that visits to Grey should
be limited to such a short period. It might be
easier to deal with this if visits are made in
a special room as suggested in paragraph 7(b)
of your telegram.
5.
I ac not think that there is much to be
gained by asking the Chinese to define their
meaning of "formal" visits. On the contrary it
might encourage them to increase their demands.
If we can achieve access to Grey by means of
visits of any sort, so much the better, and it
does not much matter what the Chinese call them.
I suggest that we ourselves should use the words
"special visits" to emphasise their exceptional
nature and minimise the right of those concerned
to make them.
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