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local authority associations and to your Council drawing attention to the long-term problems of resettlement of the Vietnamese refugees and their accommodation needs, particularly as a result of the Sibonga rescue. You may find this a useful approach to which to relate your offer. Alternatively, in view of the scale of the

resources your Council is proposing, you might prefer the Home Office itself to act as an intermediary between yourselves and the refugee

organisations and to allocate whatever accommodation you can make

available to the individual organisations according to their

particular needs.

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You may well find it useful for your or your officials to discuss these possibilities direct with the Home Office and if so I suggest you get in touch with the Home Secretary's Private

Secretary to arrange this; his telephone number is 01-213 3110.

In the meantime, I think it would be very helpful if you began to make the necessary contingency arrangements.

I am most grateful for your help.

George Tremlett, Esq.

Yours

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