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TEL NO 757
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TO FOREIGN OFFICE
23 JULY 1968
ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN OFFICE TELEGRAM NUMBER 757 CF 23 JULY REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO PEKING HONG KONG AND WASHINGTON.
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YOUR TEL NO 358 TO BERNE: BRITISH MISSION IN PEKING.
AS AUTHORISED BY TELEPHONE WE HAVE ASKED THE QUAI D'ORSAY TO TAKE THIS MATTER UP WITH THE CHINESE ON THE LINES INDICATED IN YOUR TELEGRAM UNDER REFERENCE. WE LEFT A 'BOUT DE PAPIER, CF WHICH COPIES FOLLOW BY BAG.
2. THE DIRECTEUR D'ASIE UNDERTOOK TO RECOMMEND TO MINISTERS THAT THE FRENCH SHOULD MAKE SUITABLE REPRESENTATIONS TO THE CHINESE CHARGE D'AFFAIRES IN PARIS. THESE WOULD NOT REFER TO REPRESENTATIONS BEING MADE BY ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT. CONSIDERATION WILL ALSO BE GIVEN TO INSTRUCTING M PAYE TO TAKE THIS MATTER UP IN PEKING. MANAC'H SPOXF AS IF HE WERE PRETTY SURE THAT MINISTERS WOULD APPROVE HIS RECOMMENDATION. HE SAID HE WOULD LET US KNOW WHAT ACTION HAD
BEEN TAKEN.
3. MANAC'H ENQUIRED WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES WE WERE ASKING FOR ASSIST- ANCE. I SAID THAT WE WOULD PROBABLY BE AYING MOST OF THE COUNTRIES IN RELATIONS WITH CHINA, EXCEPT FOR THE SOVIET UNION, TANZANIA, AND ALGERIA. I SAID THAT WE WOULD PROBABLY KEEP THE RUSSIANS INFORMED OF WHAT WE WERE DOING.
7.0. PASS PEKING, HONG KONG AND WASHINGTON
MR. LEDWIDGE
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