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IMMEDIATE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

TELEGRAM NUMBER 614

TO WASHINGTON

13 MARCH 1970

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PERSONAL FOR RIDLEY,

YOUR TEL NO 715: NON-COTTON TEXTILES.

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1. WE SEE POSSIBLE ADVANTAGE IN ENCOURAGING TREZISE TO COME HERE TO TALK ABOUT TEXTILES BUT WOULD NOT WISH HIM TO FEEL THAT WE HAD LET HIM COME ON FALSE PRETENCES. OUR POSITION IS SET OUT IN THE PRIME MINISTER'S MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT NIXON, WHICH TREZISE HAD NOT SEEN WHEN HE SPOKE TO YOU. HE WILL NOW BE AWARE OF IT AND IF HE FEELS IT WORTH WHILE TO DISCUSS WITH US HOW THE USA MIGHT PROCEED WITHIN THE GENERAL LINES OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S LETTER, WE SHOULD BE VERY PLEASED TO SEE HIM. WE WOULD BE GLAD IF YOU WOULD CONVEY THIS

TO HIM.

2. THE MAIN POINTS WE SHOULD LIKE YOU TO BEAR IN MIND IN TALKING TO HIM AND DRAW ON AS NECESSARY ARE THESE:-

) IT FOLLOWS FROM THE PRIME MINISTER'S LETTER THAT WE CAN SEE NO POSSIBILITY OF ACCEPTING THE POINT AT 4(B) IN YOUR TELEGRAM, 1.E. THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING OVERALL CEILINGS FOR NON- COTTON TEXTILES EXPORTS TO THE USA FROM INDIVIDUAL SUPPLYING

COUNTRIES.

(11) IF, HOWEVER, THE US ADMINISTRATION WERE PREPARED TO LOWER THEIR SIGHTS TO THE EXTENT OF MAKING IT CLEAR THAT THEIR PREOCCUP- ATIONS WOULD BE MET IF THEY COULD SECURE RESTRAINTS ON A LIMITED RANGE OF SPECIFIC ITEMS SUCH AS SHIRTS AND SWEATERS WHERE A PRESENTABLE INJURY CASE COULD BE MADE OUT, WE SHOULD CERTAINLY RE

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