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CONFIDENTIAL

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IMMEDIATE PEKING

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FOREIGN OFFICE

Peking telegram No. 18 to Paris

8 July 1968

CONFIDENTIAL

Addressed to Paris telegram No. 18 of 8 July, Repeated for information to Foreign Office.

Your telegram No. 685:

Exit Visas.

(629)

French Ambassador to Peking is in Paris and due to

He would

leave on return here on 10 July (repeat 10).

be a useful ally and if you could manage to warn him in confidence of what was afoot he might be able to prepare the ground. He usually sees President de Gaulle before leaving. I have similarly informed some other Western Ambassadors in Peking.

Please inform my wife (Galvany 9634) of Ambassador's impending return.

2.

Foreign Office pass Paris Immediate.

Sir D. Hopson

[Repeated as requested]

DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION

ADVANCE COPIES SENT

F.0.

F.E.D.

0.0.

H.K.D.

F.0.

Western Dept.

LAST

Northern Dept.

REF.

Eastern Dept.

629

N.B.A.D.

NEX

W.C.A.D.

$.2.A.7.

Resch Dept.

C.O.

S.

2.1. & S.A.D.

DSAO

Zersonnel Dept.

RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No. 63

-9 JUL1968

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