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CYPHER CAT/A

PRIORITY WASHINGTON

TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

PRIORITY WASHINGTON TELNO 17 TO HONG KONG

CONFIDENTIAL

[NEUTRAL]

3RD APRIL, 1969.

FROM HERMANN. WASHINGTON TELEGRAM NO. 1050 TO FCO:

STANS VISIT TO FAR EAST.

MIKE DANIELS THE LAWYER FOR AMERICAN IMPORTERS ASSOCIATION WHO IS OUR CLOSE ALLY AGAINST PROTECTIONISM PROPOSES TO VISIT EUROPE AND THEN JAPAN SOME TIME BEFORE 12 MAY. HIS OBJECT WILL BE TO ASCERTAIN AND RELAY TO JAPANESE THE RESPONSE WHICH EUROPEAN COUNTRIES MAKE TO STANS AND THUS STIFFEN JAPANESE RESISTANCE.

2. I THINK IT WOULD BE VALUABLE IF DANIELS VISITED HONG KONG AND TALKED TO OFFICIALS AND INDUSTRY BEFORE STANS ARRIVAL THERE. IT WAS AGREED DURING MY LAST VISIT THAT HE COULD BE OFFICIALLY INVITED TO HONG KONG ON SOME SUITABLE OCCASION. MAY OFFER ON BEHALF OF HONG KONG GOVERNMENT TO PAY HIS TRAVELLING EXPENSES FROM JAPAN AND

ACCOMMODATION IN HONG KONG QUERY

3. I WOULD HOPE THAT HE COULD BE SHOWN SUITABLE HOSPITALITY AND OFFERED ANY PROGRAMME THAT WOULD INTEREST HIM THOUGH IT IS UNLIKELY THAT HE WILL HAVE ANY TIME TO SPARE.

MR FREEMAN.

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION

TRADE POLICY DEPT.

COMMODITIES DEPT.

HONG KONG DEPT.

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