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U.K. MISSION GENEVA TELEGRAM NO. 235 TO FCO

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7. I ASKED LONG HOW STANS HAD TAKEN ALL THIS. HE SAID BADLY. BEHIND

THE ATMOSPHERE OF BONHOMIE, THERE HAD BEEN DEEP DISAPPOINTMENT, HE THOUGHT, THAT HE, LONG, HAD NOT PRODUCED THE ANSWER TO WHAT WAS CLEARLY, FOR STANS, AN URGENT PROBLEM. I ASKED WHETHER STANS HAD SHOWN ANY SIGNS OF BEING IMPRESSED BY THE DIFFICULTIES. LONG DID

NOT KNOW. HE WAS AFRAID THAT STANS MIGHT NOT GET SUCH FIRM HANDLING

IN CAPITALS, PARTICULARLY ROME AND PARIS, AND ASKED ME TO STRESS THE PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE OF WHAT WAS SAID TO HIM IN LONDON, HIS LAST

PORT OF CALL. STANS WANTED BADLY TO TAKE SOME COMFORT HOME AND HE

WOULD LOOK FOR IT WHEREVER HE COULD,

8. MY PRELIMINARY IMPRESSION OF THE GENEVA VISIT IS THAT STANS CAN

NOW BE IN NO DOUBT OF THE GATT DIFFICULTIES OVER TEXTILES. I FIND

IT MORE DIFFICULT TO GUESS WHETHER HE WAS MOVED BY THESE DIFFICULTIES GIVEN HIS FIRM BRIEF FROM THE PRESIDENT. I WILL TELEGRAPH FURTHER ON THIS WHEN I HAVE HAD A FULLER DISCUSSION WITH MY U.S. COLLEAGUE PROBABLY ON MONDAY. HIS FIRST IMPRESSION WAS THAT LONG'S PRESENTATION, WHICH HE SAID WAS FIRST-CLASS, HAD MADE A DENT.

FCO PASS ROME PARIS AND HONG KONG AND SAVING TO BONN BERNE UK DEL

EEC BRUSSELS BRUSSELS THE HAGUE WASHINGTON AND TOKYO.

SIR E MELVILLE

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED?

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION

COMMODITIES D.

TR. POL. D.

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