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THE TERM ''TERRITORY'' DOES NOT SEEM TO US OPEN TO THE SAME OBJECTION, AND IS ALREADY ENSHRINED IN, FOR EXAMPLE, THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF ECAFE. PROVIDED IT IS NOT PRECEDED BY COLONIAL'' OR ''DEPENDENT'', WE DOUBT WHETHER BY ACCEPTING IT CHINA WOULD (EVEN IN TRANSLATION) BE GIVING AWAY THEIR POINT OF SOVEREIGNTY.
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THIS LOOKS LIKE A PROBLEM WHICH OUGHT TO BE SETTLED BILATERALLY WITH THE CHINESE. WE WOULD PRESUMABLY LAY STRESS
ON THE PRACTICAL RATHER THAN THE POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVED,
6. WE ARE TELEGRAPHING ONLY BECAUSE THE ISSUE COULD CONCEIVABLY COME UP ON 18 FEBRUARY AT GENEVA IN THE DISCUSSIONS BY THE
UN NARCOTICS COMMISSION OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE'S REPORT (STRATTON'S LETTER CR 15/4841/72 11 OF 7 FEBRUARY TO WENBAN-SMITH REFERS). PLEASE WOULD UKMIS GENEVA SHOW A COPY OF THIS TELEGRAM TO TRAIN AND ROLPH WHO WILL BE ATTENDING THE COMMISSION'S MEETING.
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