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widespread concern lest Stans should commit the President to a course of action which would damage wider United States interests in foreign trade and foreign relations, but also a feeling that only the President himself can now hold him in check. Stans was talking last week of presenting the President with a plan of action by Monday but as far as we know the President left Washington en route for his meeting with President Thieu without having considered the textile question again. It can in the meantime do no harm to go on hammering the point (for example during Mr. Hardin's visit to London) that the textile problem cannot be looked at in isolation.

c.c.

Yours over

(John Freeman)

Reeman

Sir Anthony Part, K.C.B., M.B.E., Board of Trade Sir James Marjoribanks, K.C.M.G., Brussels

Sir Eugene Melville, K.C.M.G., Geneva

Sir John Cowperthwaite, K.B.E., C.M.G., Hong Kong

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