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NO PRICE AT ALL AND SIMPLY RELEASE GREY IN THEIR OWN GOOD TIME.
CATER PRESSED CONTACT IN ORDER TO FIND OUT WHETHER THESE REMARKS
ATTRIBUTED TO LI KEANT THAT FERING WAS TRYING TO RAISE THE STAKES,
EUT CONTACT DENIED STRONGLY AMY SUCH TACTICS EY FEKING AND INSIS
THAT THEY FREFERGED TO RELEASE GREY WHEN THE TIME CAME.
4. CATER THEN PRESSED CONTACT TO EXPLAIN WHEN THAT WOULD BE.
CONTACT EXPRESSED A PERSONAL VIEW THAT IT WOULD SE IN THE FAIRLY
NEAR FUTURE AND IN ANY CASE BY THE END OF THE YEAP, SINCE HE
SAID THAT THE 1ST JANUARY HWTD BEEN SET AS THE TARGET DATE FOR
CONFLETE DE-ESCALATION IN RELATIONS ETWEEN CHINA AND BRITAIN.
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5. CONTACT SAID THAT WHEN HE FREPARED HIS ASSESSMENT FOR CHOU
EN LAI HE PROPOSED TO SAY THAT THE GREY CASE WAS THE ONE IMPORTANT
ITEM OUTSTANDING FROM LAST YEAR'S DIFFICULTIES, THAT THE WESTERN
WORLL AND PARTICULARLY THE FRESS WAS FOCUSSED ON THIS QUESTION,
AND THAT THEIR INTEREST COULD EASILY INCREASE. HE WOULD EXFHASISE
THAT THERE WAS A STRONG FEELING THAT CHINESE BEHAVIOUD OVER GREY
WAS BARBARIC. HE ASKED CATER FOR ADVICE WHETHER HE SHOULD SAY
ANYTHING ELSE. CATER FROKISED TO SEE HIF AGAIN IN A DAY OF TVC.
€. SEE ALSO MY TELHGPAK KURSER 2631. FULL RECORD OF DISCUSSIONS .
FOLLOW BY EAE.
F.0. PLEASE PASS PRIORITY PEKING
SIR D. TRENCH
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FILES
H.K.D.
P.A.D.
[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]
[COPIES SENT TO SIR B. TREND, CABINET OFFICE AND TO
SECRETARY J.I.C.]
P.S. TO LORD SHEPHERD
IR MASON
IR. ROB
F.E.D.
SIR D. ALLEN
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