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PRIORITY UK MISSION GENEVA TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEGRAM NUMBER 336
9 JUNE 1969.
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ADDRESSED TO F C O TELEGRAM NUMBER 336 OF JUNE 9 RF I WASHINGTON
OTTAWA AND SAVING UKDEL E E C BRUSSELS.
WASHINGTON TELEGRAM NUMBER 1692: U S TEXTILE IMPORTS. WHEN STANS WAS HERE IN APRIL, LONG TOLD HIM THAT IF IT WOULD HELP HE, LONG, WOULD COME TO WASHINGTON FOR FURTHER TALKS AFTER STAN'S ASIAN TOUR. STANS HAS NOW TAKEN HIM UP ON THIS AND INVITED LONG TO VISIT WASHINGTON AT THE END OF THIS WEEK ON HIS WAY TO OTTAWA WHERE HE IS HAVING SEPARATE TALKS WITH CANADIAN AUTHORITIES ON GENERAL GATT MATTERS.
2. LONG WILL ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON ON THE EVENING OF 14 JUNE AND WILL BE SPENDING SUNDAY WITH STANS ON THE POTOMAC. THERE WILL BE OFFICIAL TALKS WITH US DEPARTMENTS (LONG MENTIONED SAMUELS IN PARTICULAR) ON 16 AND 17 JUNE, AND WITH BANK AND FUND (LONG SAID HE WOULD BE SEEING MACNAMARA) ON 15 JUNE. LONG'S TALKS IN OTTAWA ARE PLANNED FOR 19 JUNE AND 29 JUNE.
3. LONG KNOWS THAT HE IS GOING TO BE SUBJECTED TO PRESSURE IN WASHINGTON TO AGREE TO A GATT CONFERENCE BUT HE TOLD ME HE WOULD STAND FIRM AND WOULD NOT BE MOVED BY SUGGESTIONS WHICH HE KNEW WOULD BE MADE TO HIM THAT SOME GATT GOVERNMENTS WERE READY TO AGREE TO SUCH A CONFERENCE. HE IS CONSIDERING WHETHER THERE ARE ANY CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSALS HE COULD PUT (E G IN CONNECTION WITH AN EARLY START ON MON-TARIFF BARRIERS GENERALLY, AND INCLUDING THE 30-CALLED NEW ZEALAND PROPOSALS SUITABLY ADJUSTED) IN ORDER TO TAKE THE WIND CUT OF STANS'S SAILS' BUT HE KNOWS THAT, SINCE THIS WOULD HAVE TO INCLUDE SOMETHING ON TEXTILES, IT WOULD CREATE DIFFICULTIES FOR
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