Cypher/Cat A
CONFIDENTIAL
PRIORITY FOREIGN OFFICE TO PEKING
Telno 734
8 July 1968 (FE)
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My immediately preceding telegram.
Daily Mail article.
Apart from the inaccuracies it contains, Dickie's article is particularly unfortunate at this juncture. We do not know Dickie's source. He will only say that it was "official, but neither British nor Chinese". The article stimulated a number of questions at today's Foreign Office Press conference.
"It is true that reply, spokesman said unattributably:
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Sir Donald did apply for an exit visa about two weeks ago. 3 July he was informed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that all outstanding applications, including his own, were still under consideration". Asked whether Chinese had actually
In reply refused exit visa, spokesman said that they had not. to further questions (answers to which were all unattributable) spokesman confirmed that this was your own first application
He also although you were long overdue to leave Peking. confirmed that a number of other applications were still in and that while some exit visas had been granted, those given to senior staff had been on medical grounds alone. He said finally that staff of Chinese Mission in London were free to leave and that he was not aware of planning for any retaliatory
measures.
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