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TELEGRAM NUMBER 585
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TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
30 JULY 1968.
CONFIDENTIAL
ADDRESSED TO COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEGRAM NO. 585 OF 38 JULY REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO PEKING, HONG KONG, WASHINGTON, KAMPALA, NAIROBI (FOR SPECREP).
FROM MALCOLM MACDONALD.
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YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 626 OF 23 JULY TO DAR ES SALAAM:
BRITISH MISSION IN PEKING.
I HAD A LONG TALK WITH PRESIDENT NYERERE THIS MORNING. EARLY IN IT, I RAISED THIS QUESTION, SPEAKING AS
INSTRUCTED. NYERERE LISTENED CAREFULLY AND SYMPATHETICALLY. AT THE END HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO HELP US, AND WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE ACTION I SUGGESTED IF HE THOUGHT IT REALLY MIGHT ASSIST, BUT HE JUDGED IT WOULD HAVE NO EFFECT ON THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES. HE COMMENTED THAT THEY QUOTE DO NOT LISTEN
TO SUCH REPRESENTATIONS BY OTHERS UNQUOTE. WHEN I EXPRESSED THE VIEW THAT IF ANYONE COULD INFLUENCE THEM ON THIS SORT OF SUBJECT IT WOULD BE HIM HE LAUGHED, BUT MERRILY SHOOK HIS
HEAD.
2. I SAID THAT I WOULD REPORT HIS REACTION TO LONDON WHERE IT WOULD BE UNDERSTOOD AND ACCEPTED.
3. OUR TALK THEN RANGED OVER MANY OTHER SUBJECTS, ON WHICH
1 SHALL REPORT IN A NOTE BY DIPLOMATIC BAG IN DUE COURSE.
C.C. PASS PEKING, HONG KONG, WASHINGTON, KAMPALA, NAIROBI (FOR SPECREP).
MR. HOBDEN
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