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Whitehead

Mr. Coombs

it: I understand there is

report from Sir E. Melville of. conversation with M...

a

Long after the latter's retorn from the U.S.A.

I have

not yet seen this refert (later attached by I.

Wikhrad).

Meeting with Director General of GATT on

Friday 11 July

Textiles

PLA

Problem

I understand that Hr. Coombs is to meet Mr. Long on Friday and that - presumably in the context of Mr. Long

the recent visit to the United States to see Mr. Stans

question of the American desire to impose restraints on imports of non-cotton textiles will be discussed.

Recommendation

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I recommend that we should make it clear to Mr. Long: (a) that we believe it right to continue to resist the American move for restraint, since we believe they

.have no economic case;

(b) that we hope and believe that the EEC and others concerned in Europe are still of this mind;

(c) that we hope Mr. Long himself is (as we believe him to be, and as we ourselves are) convinced that a GATT discussion of this issue would serve little purpose; (a) that we therefore hope that he would do nothing to

encourage the U.S. to try, to turn the expected meeting of the Cotton Textiles Committee in September (whose

Committee

proper concern is the future, if any, of the Cotton

Textiles Arrangement) into a conference on an arrange-

ment for non-cottons;