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of the Hse who will give an unreserved
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welcome to statement.
SIR
SIR I. GILMOUR: I am grateful to my h F for stating so
eloquently what I believe the position to be. Even now, many
people in this country are not fully conscious of how desperately
serious the position is. I am grateful to my h F for
the point
Which I had failed to do
emphasising
5ནར
now
that one of
the worst aspects of the problem is the enormously high
percentage of refugees who are drowned.
Between
40 per cent. to 60 per cent. of those who set out from Vietnam
fail to arrive anywhere.
MR. WEETCH:
We all
Ks
welcome the rh G's statement about our response to the problem,
bust
it sust
isla
is a short-term response?
What we need is a more
permanent framework of reference, so that when calamities arise,
whether natural or man-made, decisions can be
have avoided
In that way we could
have
taken
quickly.
some of the humiliating circumstances
that occured over the past few months.
s
SIR I. GILMOUR:
*
With respect the h G,I disagree. With respecti
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I do not believe that it should be taken as being the natural
course of events that Govts behave in the way that the
have
Vietnamese Govt/behaved over the past year. It is something that is comparable only to Stalin's extermination of the
Kulaks,
or Hitler's treatment of the Jews.
OL
It is not
something that we should reasonably expect to occur in
Therefore, talks of framework are not appropriate in
future.
the
this context.
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