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PRIORITY U K MISSION GENEVA TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
TELEGRAM NUMBER 263
1 MAY 1969.
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ADDRESSED TO F C O TELEGRAM NUMBER 260 OF 1 MAY RF I WASHINGTON
UKDEL E E C BRUSSELS AND SAVING TOKYO HONG KONG BRUSSELS
BONN PARIS BERNE ROME THE HAGUE
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YOUR TELEGRAM NUMBER 954 TO WASHINGTON: VISIT OF MR STANS.
THERE WAS A USEFUL MEETING TODAY OF E F T A HEADS OF DELEGATION
TO GATT. WEITNAUER REPORTED ON THE SWISS CONVERSATIONS
WITH STANS (BERNE TELEGRAM TO YOU NUMBER 82) AND I REPORTED ON
HIS TALKS IN LONDON ON THE LINES OF YOUR TELEGRAM UNDER REFERENCE.
2. WEITNAUER ALSO REFERRED TO HIS DISCUSSIONS TWO DAYS AGO IN
BRUSSELS WITH DENIAU. HE GATHERED THAT THE COMMISSION WERE NOT
SO MUCH UNSYMPATHETIC TO THE IDEA OF ACTION ON TEXTILES
GENERALLY, IF THE AMERICANS CONSIDERED THAT ACTION WAS IM- PERATIVE, AS OPPOSED TO THE IDEA OF A LARGE GATT CONFERENCE ON THE QUESTION. THE SWISS ATTITUDE, TO JUDGE FROM WHAT WEITNAUER SAID, MIGHT IN THE END BE THAT, IF ACTION ON TEXTILES WAS INDEED IMPERATIVE, THEY WOULD ACQUIESCE ON THE GROUNDS THAT ALTHOUGH
THEY DISLIKED IT IN PRINCIPLE THEY WERE NOT DIRECTLY AFFECTED
IN PRACTICE AND THEIR MAIN INTEREST LAY IN THE ABOLITION OF
A S P. IT IS WORTH REPORTING IN THIS CONTEXT THAT MY US COLL-
EAGUE HERE SAID THAT MR STANS GOT WHAT HE WANTED'' FROM THE
SWISS.
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MY SWEDISH COLLEAGUE ALSO EVINCED SOME TENDENCY TO SEE A
CASE FOR AGREEING TO AMERICAN IDEAS ON TEXTILES (PERHAPS
WITH AN UNEASY CONSCIENCE ABOUT RECENT EXTENSIONHOF RESTRAINTS
ON HONG KONG). THEREFORE TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO ISSUE A
WARNING. I HOPED THAT THE AMERICANS HAD NOT DERIVED THE IMPRESSION
That the boisten livuluão "might
/THAT THE
acqmnace in bilateral arrangements falling
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