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.........In Confidence
THE PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON:
26-28 MAY
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1. You will have seen from John Coles' letter of 4 May
to Roger Bone that the Prime Minister has now given her
views on the shape of her meetings with American leaders.
The way is clear to go ahead with the preparation of
briefs.
2.
The Washington meetings are not really on a scale to
constitute a major bilateral summit. But officials here
agreed earlier with David Good all that in order to
ensure that the interests of all Whitehall Departments
concerned were fully taken into account we would follow
as far as possible the recently-revised procedure for the
preparation of Summit meetings.
3.
Ed Meese told the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary
on 4 May that the President will want to discuss the
handling of the Williamsburg Summit with the Prime
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