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Your tel No 640 and Washington tel No 1587:
UN Conference on Indo-Chinese Refugees.
1. It is vital if more lives are not to be lost to get
early and effective international action. We are still
not convinced that a conference in Geneva designed
primarily for pledging will either be sufficiently high
level or attract enough publicity to get the sort of
pledges now required. We fear that it may be a re-run
of the conference held last December which in practice let
the Vietnamese off the hook and lulled the world into the
mistaken belief that the problem was being looked after.
However if this is the best or the most that we can get
the UN to undertake at this stage we should clearly not
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