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effort must be made to promote a settlement of the dispute between the Burmese Government and the Karens. It was
recommended that this matter should be discussed with the Government of India with a view to devising some solution at an early date.
12.
Machinery for dealing with the emergency in South East Asia.
The conference concluded that measures taken in London to deal with the needs of the South East Asian area needed to be accelerated. It was recommended that early steps should be taken to ensure that inter-departmental consultation reached quick decisions on requests for assistance for South East Asia.
13. United States Representation in South East Asia.
The conference considered that United States represen- tation in South East Asia was not on the whole of very high calibre and, since it was essential that the United States Government should be able to see the South East Asian picture correctly through the eyes of their own observers, it was hoped that Dr. Jessup's forthcoming tour in South East Asia would lead to a greater realisation by the United States Government of the emergency in South East Asian affairs.
Foreign Office, S.W.1.
26TH NOVEMBER, 1949.
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