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(iv) The view was unanimously expressed that the

Agong was not really a suitable

representative, and that it would be best

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to delete the suggestion for a visit by

the present Agong in 1968.

(v) I said that, while we had accepted the

reasons why a visit to Malaysia could not be".

paid at this time, I still attached

importance to such a visit, and asked that it

should be kept on the schedule as a

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possibility for the future. This was agreed.

(vi) I drew attention to the fact that the

original intention had been that there might

be two visits by foreign Heads of State and

one by a Commonwealth Head of State. As a

result of our discussion there would be no

Commonwealth visits in 1968, 69 and 70, and

there had been none this year.

Nevertheless,

I myself did not wish to put forward a

candidate, since I did not think that, after

the visits of the Presidents of India and

Pakistan, there were really any suitable

candidates left, though we should perhaps

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consider a visit by the Agong in the event of

a change from the present holder of the post.

(SAVILLE GARNER)

10 October, 1967.

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