colleagues round to agree.
Found
3.
J
ave occasionally found myself falling into some I have been myself) under something of a
misapprehension about this business. In the
first place, I did not fully appreciate that
it was entirely the Board of Trade which
suggested this amendment to the Minute for the
tio
sake of little more
that
for as I can see, than
how thing to trine
tidiness. I think that I have also made the
of
mistake of tending to think that the proposal
the unchsion of
Was to include Hong Kong in the Agreed Minute,
rather than Hong Kong as one, and no more than
one, of the Dependent Territories.
Another wrong assumption
A further
nisapprehension on my part has been that there
would necessarily have to be a full-blown
meeting of the three delegations to continue
the discussion where it left off in December
1967, and that that full-blown meeting would
Kimyou have to be round about January when, if no
amendments were made to the Minute, it would
run in its previous form for another year
without opportunity to include the Dependent
Territories.
Asalier Min bacrogmund
4. After this series of frank confessions
perhaps I could try to put the matter in the Longaley
right perspective ae mich for my own benefit.
for anyone elses. Attempts at official level
to persuade the Benelux that the inclusion of
our Dependent Territories in the Agreed Minute
would be harmless
continue. If they
suceed there is (no reason cosas I can see
why the Minute should not be amended on the
lines suggested last year without waiting for
But,
the annual occasion of January to do this.
is possible that the Benelux will insist on a
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