4.
The ROACHBANK has now been anchored off Kaohsiung for
a week and the owners are becoming increasingly restive,
not least because the ship is losing them £7,000 a day.
There has been no response to the appeals to the Taiwanese
authorities which we have made through the Americans and
the Koreans, and it is our view that none is likely to be
forthcoming. In these circumstances the Foreign and
Commonwealth Secretary recommends that if there have been
no further developments by Monday, 4 June, we should set in
hand the arrangements outlined above for bringing the
refugees to this country and announce our willingness to
receive them.
5. I am copying this letter to John Chilcot (Home Office),
Bill Babett (Home Office Department), Tom Harris (Department
of Trade), Andrew Duguid (Department of Industry) and Martin
Vile (Cabinet Office).
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