FRAL
G KONG 16.6.71
16.6.71
PRIORITY
HONG KONG
ington
S GENEVA
L OECD
Brussels
2
Your Telegram No. 397
McEnery has given us a most useful account of your
thinking and it has also been very helpful to receive a copy of your negotiating brief. Naturally we, like you,
are concerned that the damage principle should be upheld
and we hope that if you have to concede broad categorisation
covering a high proportion of your trade, you will be able
Hover Jublg to avoid comprehensive restraint. But (we now appreciate
better the pressures on you and what you are trying to
achieve.
3. We agree that McEnery need not return to Hong Kong for
the talks.
4.
Once the outcome of Kennedy's talks in Seoul is
known, it would be helpful to have any further assessment
Washington can make of the settlements likely to be acceptable
respectively to the US Administration and to Chairman Mills.
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