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CONFIDENTIAL

CYPHER/CAT A

IMMEDIATE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TO UKMIS GENEVA

TELEGRAM NUMBER 315

3 CCTOBER 1969.

(commodities)

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NEUTRAL.

ADDRESSED TO UKMIS GENEVA TELEGRAM NUMBER 315 OF 3 OCTOBER REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO WASHINGTON TOKYO HONG KONG UKDEL EEC

BRUSSELS.

YOUR TELEGRAM NUMBER 525. TEXTILES.

WE AGREE THAT YOU SHOULD GIVE THE JAPANESE AN INDICATION OF OUR POSITION AS IN OUR TELEGRAM NUMBER 687 TO BONN.

2. AS REGARDS THE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS OF WASHINGTON TELEGRAM NUMBER 69, WE ARE ALSO CONSCIOUS OF NEED TO AVOID PUTTING THE U.S. IN AN IMPOSSIBLE POSITION. BUT WE DO NOT CONSIDER THAT IT IS IN OUR INTEREST TO SOFTEN THE JAPANESE'' IF BY THIS IS MEANT ENCOURAGING THEM TO BE RECEPTIVE TO U.S. REQUESTS FOR SOME BILATERAL

DEAL.

3. JAPANESE INFORMED US TODAY THAT IN SPITE OF RECENT PRESS REPORTS THEIR POSITION REMAINS UNCHANGED.

STEWART

INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISTRIBUTION:

CO...MODITIES DEPT

ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION:

HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL TRADE

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