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that they will co-operate to the full both with the Govt and with

authorities in settling these unfortunate people in

Scal

our country.

2.

SIR I. GILMOUR: I am grateful to the rh G. We

efforts being made by the voluntary

deeply admire the

organisations. Obviously, we

all wish that the situation

had not arisen, but since it has it is only right that we should

play our part in trying to solve it.

MR.

C

HUGH FRASER: Is my rh F aware that in Staffordshire

embers of the National Front took

trying to attack the refugees

with

contumely

Jocal

by local

the part of the Vietnamese Govt in

but

were dispersed

?

Will he put

that country, persuade L

further pressure on the Soviet Union to

do so, to

as far as it is possible to control this movement, which is against all laws and all considerations of humanity? Will he

endeavor to ensure

that in his central organisation for the care of these refugees proper attention is given not just to the education of children but to the education, in the English language, of the adults who arrive here?

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[SIR

SIR I. GILMOUR: I

am sure that my rh F is

absolutely right. It is important to educate not only the A

and the evidence so far in other

children but the adults,

countries is that these people learn very fast. I am grateful

for what my rh F said in the first part of his qn.

we shall do everything to try to make the

to bear

Of course

Soviet Union

bring its influence on the Vietnam Govt. So far we have failed

in our efforts, but I cannot believe that it is in Vietnam's

interests to fly in the face of the opinion of virtually the whole of the civilised world.