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Your telegram No. 525: Conduct of Commercial Relations
Officials agree to your proposal for a more
generalised authority and the draft despatch will be
submitted to Ministers on that basis. The
your
amendments suggested in paragraphs 2, 3(2), 3(3)
(with the insertion of "in terms of internațional
and law" between "that" and "H.M.G."),3(4) and 39)
will be incorporated.
2.
The second half of the first sentence of the
former paragraph 3 of the draft despatch will now
read "and regarding international trade in cotton
textiles on the terms of the long-term arrangement(TA),
The word "usually" has been dropped from the end of
the former paragraph 5.
4. The first sentence of the former paragraph 6
has been omitted. The second sentence will now
read "In respect of United Kingdom import policy,
Her Majesty's Government will have
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