CYPHER CAT.A.
ROUTINE OSLO
TELEGRAM NO 266
CONFIDENTIAL
TO FOREIGN OFFICE 25 JULY 1968
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ADDRESSED TO FOREIGN OFFICE TELNO 266 OF 25 JULY REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO PEKING.
YOUR TELNO 373 TO BERNE: BRITISH MISSION IN PEKING.
IN ABSENCE OF FOREIGN MINISTER AND DEPUTY (WHO ARE ON HOLIDAY) I SAW BOYE, PERMANENT UNDER SECRETARY, IN M F A AND SPOKE ACCORDINGLY, LEAVING ALSO A BOUT DE PAPIER. I ALSO READ HIM TELEGRAM NO 375 TO BERNE AND TOLD HIM THE LIST OF THE GOVERNMENTS WHOM WE ARE APPROACHING.
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BOYE SAID THTAT THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT WOULD CERTAINLY WISH TO GIVE MOST SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION TO OUR REQUEST AND DO WHAT THEY COULD TO HELP. HE SAID THAT THEY WERE HAVING THEIR OWN TROUBL AT PRESENT WITH THE CHINESE: UNDER A LONG-STANDING CULTURAL CONVENTION, THE CHINESE HAD ASKED 18 MONTHS AGO IF THEY COULD LAY OF A PORCELAIN EXHIBITION IN NORWAY. THE NORWEGIANS HAD ASKED FOR CATALOGUE OF WORKS, THINKING IT WOULD BE MING AND ALL THAT. NOTHING MORE WAS HEARD UNTIL COMPLETE EXHIBITION HAS NOW REACHED OSLO, CONSISITING ALMOST ENTIRELY OF UGLY MODERN PORCELAIN INSCRIBED +IN HOMAGE OF MAO+.
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FOREIGN OFFICE PLEASE PASS FURTHER AS NECESSARY. FO PASS TO PEKING.
SIR ID SCOTT.
[REPEATED AS REQUESTED].
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