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CONFIDENTIAL

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CYPHER/CAT A

PRIORITY TOKYO

TELEGRAM NO. 16

TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

17 OCTOBER 1969

CONFIDENTIAL' [NEUTRAL]

ADDRESSED TO FOREIG4 AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE TELEGRAM NC.516

OF 17 OCTOBER REPEATED FOR INFORMATION TO UKPIS GENEVA,

WASHINGTON, HONG KONG, SEOUL, AND OTTAWA

LAST

REF

MY TELEGRAM NO.6111 TEXTILES.

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292 299 300

LANDE, ECO JOMIC

COUNSELLOR AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, TOLD

FIRST SECRETARY (COMME (CIAL) TODAY THAT THE JAPANESE WERE NOW

PREPARED TO GO ALONG WITH THE IDEA OF RESTRAINTS ON SELECTED

ITEMS PROVIDED THAT CERTALI GUARANTEES (UNSPECIFIED) WERE

FORTHCOMING. AGREEMENT WOULD HAVE TO BE REACHED WITHIN A

MULTI-LATERAL FRAMEWORK BECAUSE OF JAPANESE EXPERIENCE WITH

THE AMERICANS OVER BI-LATERAL CONCESSIONS WHEN THE LTA WAS

FIRST BEING CONSIDERED.

2. FROM LANDE'S REMARKS IT WAS NOT CLEAR WHETHER THE JAPANESE

HAD FORMALLY NOTIFIED THE AMERICANS OF THIS CHANGE IN THEIR

POSITION AND THERE MAY AT THIS STAGE STILL BE AN ELEMENT

OF WISHFUL THINKING IN THE AMERICAN INTERPRETATION OF

JAPANESE STATEMENTS.

1

FCO PASS UKMIS GENEVA WASHINGTON HONGKONG SECUL OTTAWAL

(ALL PRIORITY)

RECE V

REGISTRY K

200CT 1969

SIR J. PILCHER

[REPEATED AS REQUESTED]

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