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means or another that the President's pre-
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election commitment to his/textile industry
certain shall be fulfilled. We are unsure how aware
the President is himself of the implications
for international trade of yielding to pro-
tectionist pressure and have been giving
one Unbassy in
thought to a suggestion from Washington that
the surest way of bringing our arguments to
his personal attention might be by asking the
Prime Minister to send him a message.
Such a
message, we have concluded, would be a last
major card,which we ought not to play unless
and until we are sure that it would have a good
chance of influencing the outcome.
A similar approach to that made to Hong
Kong has now been made by the Americans to all
Four Far Eastern "key exporting countries".
However, Taiwan and Korea were not approached
until a few days ago and even the Japanese not
until 2 October. The Japanese response will
important
certainly be decisive. So far the indications
are that they have stood as firm in their
opposition as Hong Kong and have indeed reacted
very similarly. However, if the Japanese weaken
it will probably be for political reasons and
the time of greatest pressure on them will be
when their Prime Minister visits Washington on
19 November.
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Our anxieties remains that the US should be
restrained from extending restrictions into the
we world prefer tent MMF and woollen fields and we wish to see the
this problem should be made within the GATT, used to the maximum effect for this
purpose.
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