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sorting out our difficulties with UNHCR over refugees who may have come via China. Sir James Murray has left Mr Hartling in no doubt about our desire to see this quickly settled. Should these representations fall on deaf ears we shall need to ask for strong support from London;
a significant increase in the numbers going to the UK. I am writing separately about this.
I should be grateful for any comments which you or Washington can offer on ways in which we can best influence the administration there to be generous in the allocation of places to Hong Kong. It would be useful if the Embassy could develop a regular line into Clark's office in order to keep Hong Kong and its problems in the forefront of their minds. Besides Hong Kong's second- to-none humanitarian approach and overcrowding, the best argument to deploy is probably the one about expense. After all the Americans bear a very large proportion of the costs of UNHCR.
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(D C Wilson)
RJT McLaren Esq
Hong Kong & General Dept
P J Weston Esq WASHINGTON
K G MacInnes Esq UKMIS GENEVA
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