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At the suggestion of the Americans it was decided not to seek volunteers for those countries which had ratified The Hague and Montreal but not the Tokyo Conventions. I enclose the list of 88 with the provisional Ad Referendum volunteers pencilled in along side. You will see that, unfortunately, for the first 30 or so countries, the Chairman rushed on after obtaining
a single volunteer and it was not until later in the list that the much more satisfadory arrangement emerged whereby time was given for several countries to volunteer. You will see that the Chairman looked to us for the Commonwealth countries and I declared us as anxious to cooperate subject again to para 4 of your telno 539. You will see that the Organizing Group plus France and ourselves were not unexpectedly prepared to take on more than
most.
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The meeting was then adjourned until March 20 on the understand- ing that all delegates would seek instructions on where their Governments would be prepared to lobby and their Government's views on the enclosed talking points circulated by the Dutch. have not had time to study the draft in detail but at first sight it would seem to present no difficulties for us.
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The meeting was not particularly well organized and handled and in retrospect the Organizing Group would have done much better to have circulated both the talking points and the list of countries to be approached with the original invitation. been lost and I doubt whether some of the smaller countries will have received firm instructions by 20 March. We should however be grateful by that date for your comments on the Dutch draft together with any points on the lobbying exercise in addition to those contained in your TUR.
Yours
G S Burton
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