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the outcome of his talks there;
but apparently he is going on to the U.S. at the invitation of Carl Gilbert primarily to give a lecture to the Foreign Affairs Association in New York around about the time of Sato's visit to Washington.
I am afraid that this does not take us any further and I don't see how we can twist Long's arm, at any rate until he has seen and talked with the Japanese. If we are going to try for early further discussion in the GATT, we shall have, I fear, to take some initiative ourselves or in concert with the Community. We should presumably also have to bring in the Japanese who, as I have already reported, share some of Long's concern about getting the GATT in on the act now. In any case if the Japanese are going to give way in three or four weeks' time, we shall have lost the chance of starting a general GATT discussion of the kind the PCO paper envisaged.
We might have a word about this when I am in London on Monday. Meanwhile, I am not copying the letter elsewhere.
Eur
(Melville)
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