TNAG-0558-FCO40-653-Resettlement-of-Vietnamese-refugees-from-Hong-Kong-into-othe-1975 — Page 118

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From:

RECEIVED REGISTRY No.52 16 JUN,975

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Sir Frederic Bennett, M.P.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

Minister of State has/hes not HD.Dept.

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for advice draft reply from Loovy RENT, PE

7th June, 1975

Y. AS / Mars LELIN

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NEX. REF.

Dear Rois

Thank you for your letter of June 2nd.

I had not previously

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sent on the attached copy-letter to a Minister because, despite my opposition to your government I have had no wish to exploit HMG's seemingly double-standards in regard to the differing treatment for- of Chilean and Vietnamese refugeees respectively, and, as the

on your records show, I did everything possible to give someone Front Bench the opportunity to "makeialforthright and generous statement

Even now I am on this, tragic aspect of the Vietnamese debacle. holding off my final reply to my constituent until I see the reply Joan Lestor says she has under consideration to the UN Commissioner for Refugees (see attached Question and Answer).

Quite frankly I think that this, if it is positive, will be much more satisfactory in allying my constituent's concern and my own, than yet another Ministerial letter such as I have received from Roy Jenkins, which denies political partiality between Chilean and Vietnamese refugees respectively, but in fact only helps to prove the case I have felt it right to make.

Finally, T quite agree with the second sentence of your second paragraph and only wish I could say the same for HMG!

The Rt. Hon. Roy Hattersley, M.P.,

Minister of State,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall,

LONDON S.W.1

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Your mercerely Yreddie Freddie

UN Dept

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drafting the reply.

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