CONFIDENTI ÄL
BRUSSELS TELEGRAM NO. 299 TO FOREIGN OFFICE
BENELUX
STATISTICAL NUMBERS
61.03.70
NIGHTWEAR FOR MEN AND BOYS
32 TONS
61.04.50
NIGHTWEAR FOR WOMEN GIRLS
CHILDREN
14 TONS
61.05.90
HANKERCHIEFS.
62.02.03)
TABLE, BED, AND HOUSEHOLD.
62.02.05 ) 62.02.25)
LINEN (NOT TERRY)
57,600 DOZENS
40 TONS
HOUSEHOLD LINEN OF TERRY CLOTH
45 TONS
62.02.20
2.
WITH REGARD TO (B) I HAVE TALKED TO BOTH DE WAARD AND. DE THEULEGOT AND IT IS MY IMPRESSION THAT THEY WOULD BOTH FIND IT VERY DIFFICULT AT THIS STAGE TO COME TO HONK KONG, BUT 'THE BENELUX GOVTS HAVE REACHED NO FINAL DECISION.
DECISION. THE INTER- PRETATION OF (B) IS THAT THEY WOULD PREFER ANY DISCUSSIONS TO BE HELD IN EITHER BRUSSELS OR THE HAGUE AND THE EARLIEST WOULD BE IN THE LAST DAYS OF JUNE OR THE BEGINNING OF JULY. 1 AM MEETING DE WAARD IN THE HAGUE ON MONDAY 12TH JUNE. AND I WILL THEN CABLE YOU AGAIN.
F.O. PLEASE PASS TO THE HAGUE 58, UKMIS GENEVA 6, AND
UNNUMBERED TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.
SIR R. BARCLAY
DESP.
RECD,
1650Z 07 JUN.
1650Z 07 JUN.
[REPEATED AS REQUESTED
AND TO HONG KONG 1
INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION
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TELEGRAM NO.
1178