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1. Lord and Lady Rhodes visited China from 8-13 March. first two days were spent in Peking and the remainder of the time in Shanghai. In spite of our apprehensions, particularly about the visitors' health and mobility, their stay passed off uneventfully, but we are grateful to Richard Margolis for his help in organising the arrival of the Rhodes here on schedule, complete with portable wheelchairs.

2. I enclose copies of the records of Lord Rhodes' meetings here with Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Canming, Li Ying Gui (of the China National Textiles Import and Export Corporation), Jia Shi and Wang Ruiting (Textile Vice Minister). The last three of these records have been sent to Lord Rhodes under cover of a letter from

Richard Fletcher-Cooke of 15 March (not copied). —NR

3. Perhaps the main result of Lord Rhodes' visit was that he secured the agreement of the textile Ministry that it would telegraph the International Wool Secretariat in London to invite Lord Rhodes' nephew, Mr John Rhodes, to visit China to advise on the textile structure of wool, and wool designs. With luck, that visit will involve us much less than his uncle's.

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