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1. Thank you for your letter of 30 May.
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Mr. Clift Gaver
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we should do what we can to keep the Germans up to the mark. My staff have been plugging away at them for the last 12 months or so and, provided that we can show that our record, taken over South-East Asia as a whole, is at least as good as and preferably better than the FRG's, an approach at the political level would certainly do no harm.
2. Up until recently, the FRG was, as you know, one of the few countries to allocate Hong Kong a fair share of places in their resettlement programme. There is now a bottle-neck in reception facilities caused partly by difficulties in assimilating the refugees into German society and partly by a large influx of other refugees, notably from Eritrea and
This influx has Bangladesh, claiming political assylum. caused some embarrassment to the Länder Governments, whose responsibility the refugees are and who would have to agree
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