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to answer

but the risk they refers to

does not seem

as to require

great as

so great

additional machinery to protect against it. Three points occur to me in this Connection;

a) The Americans normally request clearance for their vessels in blocks and ay delay in giving clearance for any двосму

Nuclear vessels included in their could be embarrassing, unless justified by prevailing political lines.

6). Chinese reaction to visits first becomes evident in Hong Kong. Paking inevitably by at least 5 days

are

behind.

See attached DIB extract mid today.

c) China in now

it self

"neeclear

a

Power' and in no

mount a

position to sustained campaign about

The "dangers" of the muckar element in U.S. ships. Consequently "The wider implications of such visits are not easily distingnichable from those army from visits of conventional ships.

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