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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nARCHIVES\nAND\nRECORDS\n- 2 -\namount from Australia. We could not agree to this and we asked the\nBritish, through Sir Oliver, to recede from this position. We could\nsee a certain validity in the British fear that they might have to buy\ndollar wheat instead of sterling wheat and therefore we did not oppose\nthe side agreement with Australia, but to go further than this seemed\nto us to place British financial worries in an unduly prominent position\nand also raised the very difficult question of getting Japanese agreement,\nwhich involved General MacArthur's agreement, to a position which\nneither the Japanese nor General MacArthur, nor the United States\nGovernment thought was sound. Finally, I said that this whole matter\nhad taken an unsonscionable amount of time and effort and strongly\nurged that the British make a contribution to its solution by with-\ndrawing the second objection noted above.\nSir Oliver asked whether it was not true that the German Govern-\nment had already made an agreement similar to that which the British\nwere asking of Japan. I said that Idid not know about this, but even if\nit were true, it did not help us resolve the problem with Japan and also,\nif it were true, it seemed to me that the British had gotten probably\nmore than they really needed. Sir Oliver repeated my position after\nme and seemed to have it sträight and said he would get off a telegram\nreporting it.\n+1\nD.A.\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)\n12.29.25\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973\nBy NLT- HC , NARS Date 6-4-26\nS:DA:dhm\nSECRET"
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