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TELEGRAM NUMBER 407
CONFIDENTIAL [NEUTRAL]
CONFIDENTIAL
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
25 APRIL 1969
ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEGRAM NUMBER 407 OF 25 APRIL 1969 RFI ( ROUTINE) TO UKMIS GENEVA BERNE BONN ROME UKDEL EEC (BRUSSELS(, BRUSSELS THE HAGUE TOKYO WASHINGTON AND UKDEL OECD 81
MY TEL 381: MR STANS AND TEXTILES
THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TOLD ME THAT IN ADDUCING THE ARGUMENT THAT THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM WAS, IN LARGE PART TO BLAME FOR THE DEFICIT IN THE U. S. BALANCE OF PAYMENTS, M. DEBRE WENT CONSIDERABLY FURTHER THAN BRUNET HAD INDICATED OT MINISTER (E). THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER ALLEGEDLY SAID THAT HE COULD NOT SEE A CONFERENCE ON MAN-MADE FIBRES TAKING PLACE WITHOUT AN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONFERENCE BEING HELD CONCURRENTLY. STANS HAD NOT REACTED TO THIS BUT SHRIVER LATER ADVISED HIM THAT HE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO HEAR
MORE OF THIS CHANTAGE'',
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ACCORDING TO SHRIVER THE OUTCOME OF THE STANS VISIT WAS ALSO RATHER MORE POSITIVE FROM THE U.S. POINT OF VIEW THAN BRUNET HAD INDICATED. HE SAID THAT THE FRENCH AND U.S. GOVERNMENTS HAD AGREED THAT EACH SHOULD PREPARE A PAPER ON THE VARIOUS FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION WHICH EACH THOUGHT THE OTHER PRACTISED AND WOULD LIKE
TO SEE REDUCED OR ELIMINATED.
FCO PLEASE PASS TO UKMIS GENEVA BERNE BONN ROME UKDEL EEC (BRUSSELS) BRUSSELS THE HAGUE TOKYO AND WASHINGTON
MR. SOAMES
[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]
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