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TELEGRAM NUMBER 1491 OF 13 JUNE
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OUR TELEGRAM NUMBER 1470 : VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
1. WE THOUGHT IT PRUDENT TO CONFIRM WITH CUSHING (DEPUTY DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF REFUGEES, STATE DEPARTMENT) THAT IN THE ABSENCE OF INSTRUCTIONS WE COULD NOT COMMENT ON THE PROPOSAL THAT VIETNAMESE
REFUGEES SHOULD BE RESETTLED IN BELIZE: WE NEEDED TO TAKE ACCOUNT
CF GUR RESPONSIBILITIES FOR BELIZE, AND IT WOULD BE WRONG TO RAISE
FALSE HOPES AMONG THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY.
2. CUSHING TOOK NOTE, AND SAID THE PROPOSAL HAD COME FROM THE
CITIZENS COMMISSION ON INDO-CHINA REFUCEES, LED BY MR LEO CHERNE (HEAD OF THE RESEARCH ISTITUTE OF AMERICA) AND A NUMBER OF OTHER. PROMINENT FIGURES, WHICH CLAIMED THAT A BELIZE LANDOMIER (UNNAMED) HAD SHOWN INTEREST IN MAKING BELIZE LAD AVAILABLE (FOR A ROMINAL SUP) FOR THE RESETTLEMENT OF REFUGEES.
3. IF THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF FOLLOWING UP THE PROPOSAL, WE SHALL NEED TO SPEAK SOON TO THE CITIZENS COMMISSION TO NIP THE
IDEA IN THE BUD BEFORE IT GAINS FURTHER CURRENCY.
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