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BY BAG SAVING TELEGRAM

*CONFIDENTIAL

FROM WASHINGTON TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

Tel. No. 44 Saving

12 March 1969

RECEIVED IN ARCHIVES No.31/40

1 7 MAR 1969

HKK 6/304

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Addressed to Foreign and Commonwealth Office Tel. No. 44 Saving dated 12 March 1969 repeated for information Saving to:

Paris

Rome

Bonn

The Hague

Brussels

Luxembourg

UKDEL Nato

Copenhagen

UKDEL EEC

Lisbon

Oslo

Athens

Ankara

M.I.P.T..

President Nixon's Visit to Europe

The State Department brief begins by describing the President's visit to Europe as a success in that it achieved all that was intended. This was the establishment of mutual trust, based on assurances about consultation and close cooperation between the United States and her European Allies.

Policy Towards Europe. United States policy towards

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Europe is to be based on the following:-

2.

Continued support for NATO:

b. Support for a vigorous, independent and unified European Community, which would include the entry of the United Kingdom into the EEC :

C.

Recognition that the United States should not attempt to tell the Europeans how this unity should be achieved, since this is essentially a matter for European countries to decide for themselves;

ô. The maintenance of strong links between Europe and the United States and recognition of the claims of America's European Allies to be consulted about matters which affect their interests;

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The opening of negotiations with the Soviet Union, which will extend over a long period.

3./Summitry

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