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It is my hope that the practice, now

taken for granted in the Cotton Textiles

Committee, will quickly come to be accepted

in meetings at which non-cotton textiles

are discussed. I think the change should

come into effect with as little publicity

as possible. I propose, therefore, that the

new arrangements be explained to the Secretary

General of GATT informally and that other

interested parties be told only when Her

Majesty's Government think it necessary to

as

dissociate

dissociate the United Kingdom from Hong

Kong policy.

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