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2. The Board of Trade still maintain that the
Canadians exaggerate the damage they are suffering
and that you are likely to get a better deal from
them by not settling too quickly.
whether you agree with this.
I do not know
They Board of Trade
also do not rate very high the risk of the Canadians
imposing a surcharge if they are not satisfied with
next week's talks. At the same time we have a
reason of our own for not wishing to provoke the
Lprovoked
Canadians/into hasty action against Hong Kong
mad:
exports because We ourselves are about to enter into
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some important and delicate negotiations with them/
on another issue not connected with Hong Kong.
hope therefore that you will give us the earliest
happeni possible warning if there is any danger of this as
we should want to review the situation urgently here
The only really new point in F.C.O. telegram
your gist No.36is the offer to pa to participate in the
3.
Ottawa talks next month.
While I cannot, of course,
Never the less if
they were touto
so it would have
important repercussims
for us
us as well
for you.
with conserpent
attung fatting
guarantee the outcome of these talks the proposal,
involving only six weeks' delay, seemed to us
saleable to the Canadians and I hope that it will
Larguing that you camslag provide a plausible reason for your pet being de
go all the way to an agreement now. Incidentally
the Board of Trade will have to get decisions of
principle from their Ministers before the Ottawa
talks. It really is the case therefore that delays|
should not be for more than a few weeks.
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