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arranged with the Secretary of State.

What I can say is that nominister would find a conversation with Dr Chien a waste of time.

He is being spoken of as a future Prime Minister, and this at a time when that office seems to be growing in power at the expense of the President (though this owes much to the character of the present incumbents).

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