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CYPHER/CAT A

ROUTINE STOCKHOLN

TELECRAM NUMBER 395

CONFIDENTIAL

TO FOREIGN OFFICE

A JULY 1960.

632

CONFIDENTIAL.

ADDED TO F O TELO 395 OF 4 JULY.

REPTD FOR INFORMATION TO PEKING.

доба

YRTEL RO 353 TO DERNE: BRITISH MISSION IN PEKING.

1 SHOULD EXPECT THE SWEDES TO AGREE TO A COLLECTIVE

DEMANCHE IN PEKING PROVIDES THAT A RESPECTABLE HUNDER OF THE COVERNMENTS REPRESENTED THERE TOOK PART, INCLUDING NOT ONLY THE WESTERN GOVERNMENTS BUT THOSE RECOGNISED BY WORLD OPINION AS UNCOMMITTED - E.G. ALGIERS, BELGRADE, CAIRO,

LUSAKA AND EVEN RAWALPIDI. THEY WOULD, HOWEVER, PROBABLY OBJECT TO PUBLICITY, AND THEREFORE TO ACTION IN CAPITALS, AS LIKELY TO PRODUCE THE WRONG EFFECT ON THE CHINESE. THEY WOULD BE BOUND TO CONSIDER THE EFFECT ON

(A) THEIR MISSION IN PEKING, AND

(D) THEIR DIPLOMATIC ROLE IN RELATION TO VIETNAM,

2. THE CH WIESE ENDASSY HERE CAN HARDLY DE SAID TO EXIST SEMICOLON MOST OF THE DIPLOMATS IN THE LATEST LIST, INCLUDING THE AMBASSADOR, HAVE BEEN ABSENT FOR MONTHS AND AS FAR AS

WE KNOW THERE IS ONLY A THIRD SECRETARY HERE IN ADDITION TO THE CHARGE D'AFFAIRES (THE COMMERCIAL COUNSELLOR).

3. KOSYGIN LEAVES STOCKHOLM ON 15 JULY. THE SWEDES MICHT WELL REGARD ACTION, ACCOMPANIED BY PUBLICITY, OR BEFORE THAT DATE AS AN UNWELCOME COMPLICATION.

FO PASS PEZING.

ON

SIR A. ROSS

606A

652

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED 1

DEPARTMENTAL DISTRIBUTION

F.0.

F.E.D.

C.O.

H.K.D.

F.0.

WESTERN DEPT.

NORTHERN DEXT.

EASTERN DEPT.

W.C.A.D.

S.E.A.D.

RESEARCH DEPT.

C.O.

S.A.D.

E.A.D.

Z.M. & S.A.D.

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- 8 JUL 1968

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