From: Sir Frederic Bennett, M.P.
RECEIVED REGISTRY No.52 - 5 JUN1975
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Please forgive this letter being topped, tailed and signed on my behalf, but I am just en route for Heathrow to fly via Berlin to Bonn for the WEU 20th Anniversay Commemoration and I do not want despatch to have to await my return.
Quite frankly while I cannot fairly blame you for the Home Office attitude in regard to admittance into this country, I am clear in my mind that in view of what was said to me in the Whitsun Adjournment debate, I am netitled to an answer from you on how we view our responsibilities in regard to those refugees from Vietnam landed in Hong Kong. It is not Roy Jenkins responsibility but yours to come to a decision on what advice or direction and what financial or other help should be given both to the refugees and the Hong Kong government, and I await impatiently your clarification on the point in order that I can satisfactorily answer a constituent, who, apart from my own interest in the matter, has already waited far too long, i.e., since the 5th May.
Yours sincerely,
Freddie Bennett.
Dictated by Sir Frederic Bennett and signed in his absence.
The Rt. Hon. J. Callaghan, M.P.,
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall,
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