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UNITED STATE FOREIGN POLICY 1972
1.
A copy of the introductory note by the US Secretary of State to his 1973 Report on United States Foreign Policy together with a summary of the European chapters of the Report has already been circulated to interested departments.
2.
The Report is of more than 700 pages in length and a few copies are available in North America Department. Departments will be particularly interested to look at the attached copies of particular sections
of the Report with which they are concerned.
(a) Pages 315-323 dealing with Eastern Europe. (b) Pages 403-442 dealing with Latin America.
(c) Pages 76-80 dealing with defence and security
aasistance. The section at the top of page 78 about Alliance diplomacy, beginning "Cardinal tenet... throughout the world" is possibly a reference to suspicions in the Alliance of bilateral delays between the US and the Soviet Union.
(d) Pages 149-159 on narcotics. It seems that the US Government have good cause for satisfaction both in the initiative they have taken and the success they have achieved so far in this field. Hong "ong receives a brief mention at the bottom of page 157. There was some discussion about how Hong Kong could be represented in the effort that was being made to control the narcotics trade. Our Embassy in Washington have commented that this is a field where both our direct interests and our interest in Anglo/US relations demand strong cooperation with the US Government and Mr Graham in particular has noted that the whole Report leaves him with the impression of
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