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PEKING TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Telno 645 6 July, 1968
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Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No. 645 of 6 July
Repeated for information to: Hong Kong, Washington and POLAD Singapore.
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Your telegram No. 723: Exit Visas.
If you decide to summon the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires it would clearly be preferable to receive him on a fairly high level i.e. Minister or Permanent Under-Secretary. It is we who are protesting and the higher the level the more weight will be attached to protest.
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I hope we shall not allow ourselves to be discouraged by the pleas from other countries that their relations with China are not (repeat not) very good.
Most Govern- This applies to practically everybody. ments will probably be reluctant to stick their necks out and if this exercise is to get off the ground we
may have to press them quite hard. COYS & LEVE
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3. As regards publicity you will have seen the
I think comments in my telegrams numbers 637 and 638. it important that there should be some publication to coincide with our diplomatic approaches, though as I have stressed before it should not (repeat not) mention the diplomatic activity itself.
Foreign Office pass Hong Kong, Washington and POLAD Singapore.
Sir D. Hopson
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