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TELEGRAM NUMBER 602 OF 21 AUGUST
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INFO IMMEDIATE FCO: ROUTINE WASHINGTON AND UKMIS GENEVA
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YOUR TELNO 001: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES: MI V SEROOSKERK.
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1. COUNSELLOR THIS AFTERNOON INFORMED DIRECTOR FOR GENERAL
AFFAIRS AT THE HEA OF THE PRECEDENT. STUTTERHEIM TOOK NOTE
AND URDERTOOK TO LET US KNOW AS SOON AS THE NETHERLANDS
GOVERNMENT HAD COME TO A DECISION. HE BELIEVED HOWEVER THAT THE
NETHERLANDS WOULD STICK TO TAKING THE REFUGEES PICKED UP BY THE
QUOTE SEROOSKERK UNQUOTE.
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STUTTERHEIM'S ATTITUDE IS CONSISTENT WITH A POINT THE SECRETARY
GENERAL MADE TO ME THIS MORNING. REFUGEES PICKED UP BY DUTCH
MERCHANT VESSELS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE QUOTA OF REFUGEES THE
NETHERLANDS HAS AGREED TO TAKE, BUT ARE ADMITTED AD HOC OVER AND ABOVE IT. IF THERE WERE A SUBSTITUTION THE REFUGEES, WOULD
HAVE TO COME WITHIN THE QUOTA (1,200 FOR 1979, NOW ALMOST ENTIRELY COMMITTED).
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UNLESS YOU HAVE STRONG REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE DUTCH WOULD BE SWAYED BY THE SECOND SENTENCE OF YOUR TUR, WE WOULD
PREFER NOT TO USE IT. IT MIGHT ONLY ENCOURAGE THE DUTCH TO
PERSEVERE IN THEIR ORIGINAL DECISION III THE EXPECTATION THAT THE
PROBLEM WOULD BE REDUCED BY THE DEPARTURE OF THOSE CONCERNED
FOR THE US AND ELSEWHERE VERY SOON AFTER THEY HAD
ARRIVED IN THE NETHERLANDS.
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