mention the matter to him and ask whether his Government's standard refusal to accept refugees
on the first port of call principle will be applied in this case. If Mr Lee confirms this, we probably have no alternative to giving the usual assurance: though the 30 could be set against the unused portion of our declared quota of 1,500 admittances.
I am sending copies of this letter to John Chilcott in the Home Office, Tom Harris in the Department of Trade, Martin Vile in the Cabinet Office and Bill Beckett in the
Law Officers Department.
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