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7. Finally, in amplification of Mr Bodström's remarks on punishment in China, Klackenberg said that it caused more of à storm in Stockholm than ever it did in Peking. Relations between

the MFA and the Swedish media were at present very bad and if the local press could exaggerate its coverage of events to embarrass the MFA they did so.

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