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HE SAID THAT THE TEXTILES COMMITTEE WAS TO MEET AGAIN
AT 4PM THIS AFTERNOON IN GENEVA, IT WAS ESSENTIAL TO CONCLUDE.
FURTHER PLAYING FOR TIME RISKED CAUSING THE COLLAPSE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS. THE COMMISSION WERE ENTIRELY SATISFIED THAT THE LATES TEXT CONFIRMED TO THE MANDATE GIVEN BY THE COUNCIL. TO REFUSE TO ACCEPT IT WOULD RESULT IN A MAJOR POLITICAL SETBACK LIKELY TO
UPSET THE DELECATE BALANCE IN RELATIONS BETWEEN IMPORTERS AND EXPORTERS OF TEXTILES WHICH HAD BEEN PRECARIOUSLY MAINTAINED SINCE 1962. IT WOULD TEND TO DISSIPATE SUCH GOODWILL AS HAD BEEN CREATED BY THE NORTH/SOUTH DIALOGUE. IF THE RESULT OF FAILURE TO AGREE WERE RESORT TO ARTICLE XIX ACTION, THE REPERCUSSIONS WOULD EXTEND OUTSIDE THE TEXTILES FIELD TO OTHER AREAS OF TRADE. THE SEA OF PROTECTIONISM WOULD HAVE BROKEN IN THROUGH THE DYKES. AND ARTICLE XIX ACTION WOULD IN ANY CASE CALL FOR COMPENSATION TO AFFECTED
STATES.
7. THIS CATALOGHE OF AGREEMENTS DID NOT CONVINCE SCHEER (FRANCE). HE CONSIDERED THAT THE MOST RECENT TEXTS BOTH OF ARTICLES 5 AND 9 WERE IN SOME WAYS LESS SATISFACTORY THAN EARLIER TEXTS. HE AFFECTED TO BELIEVE THAT THESE TEXTS HAD BEEN WEAKENED' AS A RESULT
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OF AMERICAN PRESSURE. HE DID NOT ACCEPT THAT THE TEXT AS A WHOLE CONFORMED TO THE MANDATE GIVEN TO THE COMMISSION. IT WAS FOR THE COUNCIL TO CHANGE THE MANDATE.
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DENMAN REBUTTED THESE POINTS. IT WAS NEVER POSSIBLE IN A NEGOTIATION TO SECURE 100 PERCENT OF WHAT ONE WANTED. BUT HE HAD CONSULTED COMMISSIONER DAVIGNON EARLIER IN THE MORNING AND HE WAS FREE TO SAY THAT IF THE BILATERALS WENT BADLY EITHER THE TEXT OF THE MFA WOULD HAVE TO BE CHANGED OR THE COMMUNITY COULD NOT SIGN IT. THIS WAS THE ESSENCE OF THE ARGUMENT OVER THE CONFORMITY OR OTHER-
WISE OF THE TEXT WITH THE MANDATE.
9. KITTEL (GERMANY) AND LARSEN (DENMARK) EXPRESSED AGREEMENT WITH THE COMMISSION. VON SWINDEREN (NETHERLANDS) REFUSED TO EXPRESS A VIEW. ANTICI (ITALY) WONDERED IF THERE COULD BE A ''RESERVE D'ATTENTE' UNTIL THE COUNCIL BUT WAS TOLD BY DENMAN THAT THE TEXT HAD TO BE ACCEPTED THIS AFTERNOON. GOLDSMITH (UK) SAID HE COULD NOT JUDGE WHETHER HIS AUTHORITIES WOULD BE ENTIRELY HAPPY
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