CYPHER/CAT A
PRIORITY TOKYO
CONFIDENTIAL
os File 292
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
TELEGRAM NUMBER 611
15 OCTOBER 1969
CONFIDENTIAL. NEUTRAL/
ADDRESSED TO F.C.0. TELEGRAM NO. 611 OF 15 0COBER REPEATED
FOR INFORMATION TO UKMIS GENEVA, WASHINGTON, HONG KONG, SEOUL
AND OTTAWA.
MY TELEGRAM NO. 637
TEXTILES.
COMMERCIAL COUNSELLOR SAW HIRAHARA, DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL
OF THE ECONOMIC AFFAIRS BUREAU IN THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS, THIS AFTERNOON. HIRAHARA SAID THAT THE INTERIM REPORT
PRODUCED BY H.1.T.1. ON THE MATERIAL PROVIDED BY THE AMERICANS
IN WASHINGTON LAST MONTH SAID THAT ON PURELY ECONOMIC GROUNDS
THERE WAS NO PROOF OF SERIOUS INJURY TO THE U.S. TEXTILE
INDUSTRY AND NOTHING TO JUSTIFY VOLUNTARY RESTRAINT BY JAPAN.
TAKAHASHI'S FINAL REPORT WAS HOWEVER STILL AWAITED,
է
*
2. NEVERTHELESS IN BILATERAL TALKS LAST WEEK, OHIRA TOLD
TRESIZE THAT IF THE AMERICANS WISHED TO PRODUCE MORE FACTS AND
PURSUE THE MATTER MULTILATERALLY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF G.A.7.7
THE JAPANESE WOULD ROT ODJECT, HIRAHARA COMMENTED THAT NOTHING
HAD BEEN HEARD FROM THE AMERICANS SINCE THEN AND HE HAS NOT
PREPARED TO SPECULATE ON THE AMERICANS LIKELY NEXT MOVE. BUT HE
ISFERRED THAT THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON HAD BEEN REPORTING
ON THIS ISSUE IN SOMEWHAT DRAMATIC TERMS WHICH HE SUGGESTED WERE
TO SOME EXTENT, BEING DISCOUNTED BY THE JAPANESE GOVERAMENT,
LAST
REF.
297
CONFIDENTIAL
R GISTRY No. C1 20 OCT 1969
нккороч
13.
HE
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.