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TELEGRAM NUMBER 602 OF 21 AUGUST

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INFO IMMEDIATE FCO: ROUTINE WASHINGTON AND UKMIS GENEVA

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YOUR TELNO 001: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES: MI V SEROOSKERK.

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1. COUNSELLOR THIS AFTERNOON INFORMED DIRECTOR FOR GENERAL

AFFAIRS AT THE HEA OF THE PRECEDENT. STUTTERHEIM TOOK NOTE

AND URDERTOOK TO LET US KNOW AS SOON AS THE NETHERLANDS

GOVERNMENT HAD COME TO A DECISION. HE BELIEVED HOWEVER THAT THE

NETHERLANDS WOULD STICK TO TAKING THE REFUGEES PICKED UP BY THE

QUOTE SEROOSKERK UNQUOTE.

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STUTTERHEIM'S ATTITUDE IS CONSISTENT WITH A POINT THE SECRETARY

GENERAL MADE TO ME THIS MORNING. REFUGEES PICKED UP BY DUTCH

MERCHANT VESSELS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE QUOTA OF REFUGEES THE

NETHERLANDS HAS AGREED TO TAKE, BUT ARE ADMITTED AD HOC OVER AND ABOVE IT. IF THERE WERE A SUBSTITUTION THE REFUGEES, WOULD

HAVE TO COME WITHIN THE QUOTA (1,200 FOR 1979, NOW ALMOST ENTIRELY COMMITTED).

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UNLESS YOU HAVE STRONG REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THE DUTCH WOULD BE SWAYED BY THE SECOND SENTENCE OF YOUR TUR, WE WOULD

PREFER NOT TO USE IT. IT MIGHT ONLY ENCOURAGE THE DUTCH TO

PERSEVERE IN THEIR ORIGINAL DECISION III THE EXPECTATION THAT THE

PROBLEM WOULD BE REDUCED BY THE DEPARTURE OF THOSE CONCERNED

FOR THE US AND ELSEWHERE VERY SOON AFTER THEY HAD

ARRIVED IN THE NETHERLANDS.

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