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to say to the Chinese. On the maritime agreement, the brief told N. Priston to say that we were ready to resume negotiations if the Clurese wanted to. From our pont of view, there is no objection to that. The brief also strongly implied that A Priston should take the initiative in raising the subject with the Chinese: that we have not agreed to. Neither HICGD now FED see any advantage in our pushing the idea of a Maritime Agreement
Maritime Agreement - at least not until we have exhanated the possibility of getting agreement to a fair share of cargoes in the Economic Cooperation Agreement. As Masefield agreed therefore to speak to t Brown in the DOT and toy toget
that the line on the charitime Agreement was a defensive one, to be used only if the Chinese raised the subject. 2. I thasefield subsequently told the that he had spoken to No Brown, who was quite relaxed about the who bidea. He seemal now on trying content that we should concentrate for
what we can out of the ECA (which, it is hoped, N Varley should sign when he is i Peking) and leave the maritime Agreement on one side for the time being. He will try to convince his indesecretaries accordingly
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