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FE Appreciate reconsideration DEPTEL 232 in light following:

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USIA 1. All other Chiefs Mission including NATO will be partici-
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CIA Korean may appear in British cemetery.

 

 

 

 

RMR 2. Customarily no speeches whatsoever are made and doyen
is usually assisted by one or two other Chiefs Mission in
actual laying diplomatic wreath.

3, Wartime allies will be offended at noticeable absence
US representation, ich will inevitably be interpreted also
as displeasure with Rumanians for April 19 events although
this occasion is V-E observance.

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4. Since military honors involve both ARMA and AIRA believe
it necessary participate.

MERRILL

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