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Your telegram No 371;

INDO-CHINA REFUGEES (NOT TO ALL)

Before receipt of your TUR, the Prime Minister had

already instructed, as a result of her talks in Canberra,

for consultations to be put in hand immediately with

Australia, the US, Canada and perhaps France, with a view

to arriving at a common approach to the conference.

have therefore called a meeting of officials from these

missions in London on Wednesday, 11 July and have asked

missions to seek full instructions by then. We know the Australians reported this proposal on 3 July.

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2. In preliminary consultations with missions in London

to arrange this meeting Murray stressed the Prime

Minister's close interest in the conference and the

importance for like-minded countries of pooling

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