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CYPHER/CAT A IMMEDIATE TOKYO
TEL NUMBER 249
CONFIDENTIAL
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
DATE 15 MAY
CONFIDENTIAL..
[NEUTRAL]
ADDRESSED TO FCO TELNO 249 OF 15 MAY RFI HONG KONG WASHINGTON UKDEL BRUSSELS UKDEL GENEVA SEOUL PARIS BONN ROME BERNE
BRUSSELS AND THE HAGUE
MY TELNO 241: STANS' VISIT
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LANDE, FIRST SECRETARY AT THE US EMBASSY, HAS TOLD US THAT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY HAD NOT EXPECTED ANY RESULTS FROM STANS' VISIT AND IN FACT NONE HAD EMERGED. THE JAPANESE ATTITUDE ON THE QUESTION
OF TEXTILES HAD BEEN IF ANYTHING OVERFIRM. AICHI IN PARTICULAR AT HIS FIRST MEETING WITH STANS HAD REJECTED ANY AMERICAN
PROPOSAL ON TEXTILES BEFORE STANS HAD EVEN REFERRED TO THE SUBJECT, SUBSEQUENTLY THE JAPANESE APPEARED TO HAVE REALISED THAT THEY HAD OVERPLAYED THEIR HAND AND THE AGREEMENT BY MR SATO, THE PRIME MINISTER, AT HIS MEETING WITH STANS TO CONSIDER THIS MATTER FURTHER AT OFFICIAL LEVEL CHIEFLY
STEMMED FROM THIS REALISATION. THE OFFICIAL MEETING HOWEVER HAD PRODUCED NO RESULTS AND LANDE DID NOT CONSIDER THAT ANY.
FUTURE MEETINGS AT THIS LEVEL WOULD DO SO.
3. LANDE CONFIRMED THAT THE IDEA OF A JUNE MEETING OF GATT HAD NOW BEEN DROPPED. HE CONSIDERED THAT A POLITICAL DECISION WOULD HAVE TO BE TAKEN IN WASHINGTON ON THIS MATTER FOLLOWING STANS' RETURN AT THE END OF HIS TOUR OF THE FAR EAST, BUT LANDE WAS UNWILLING TO PREDICT WHICH WAY THE DECISION MIGHT GO. HE DID HOWEVER SUGGEST THAT, ALTHOUGH THE JAPANESE WERE NOW BEING EXTREMELY TOUGH, IT WOULD BE IN CHARACTER FOR THEM TO AGREE AT THE LAST MINUTE TO ESTABLISH VOLUNTARY EXPORT CONTROL ON TEXTILES DESTINED FOR THE US SHOULD THE PROSPECT
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CONFIDENTIAL
RECEIVED IN
/OF THE
REGISTRY No. 31
16 MAY 1969
HKK 6/20411
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