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WOULD IN FACT PROVIDE EFFECTIVE PROTECTION AND THOUGHT THAT QUOTAS MIGHT BE REQUIRED IN ADDITION.

5. SUMMING UP LANGLEY SAID THAT TEXTILES WERE A VERY SENSIT- IVE SUBJECT IN CANADA. ANYTHING THAT EXACERBATED THE PROBLEM WAS MOST UNWELCOME TO THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. HE, HOWEVER, TOOK COMFORT FROM THE FACT THAT THERE WOULD BE A LONG HIATUS BEFORE THE TARIFF WAS INTRODUCED, DURING WHICH THERE WOULD BE CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO GOVERNMENTS,

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THE CANADIANS MADE NO REFERENCE TO THEIR QUOTE CONTRACT- UAL RIGHTS UNQUOTE, WHICH ARE REFERRED TO IN THE LAST PARA- GRAPH OF YOUR TELEGRAM NO. 840 AND ON WHICH ROGERS EXPRESSED DOUBTS TO HAGESTADT ON THE TELEPHONE THIS MORNING. WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR EARLY CLARIFICATION, AS TO EXACTLY WHAT RIGHTS

ARE INVOLVED OTHER THAN GENERAL RIGHTS TO QUOTE CONSULTATION

UNQUOTE UNDER THE FLEMING-ECCLES LETTERS.

FCO PLEASE PASS ROUTINE UKMIS GENEVA

SIR C CROWE

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