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Oral Answers to Questions — United States (Discussions)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 15 June 1964.

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Photo of Mr R.A. Butler Mr R.A. Butler , Saffron Walden 12:00, 15 June 1964

This was one of the exaggerations which were made of my conversations with the Secretary of State. No such request was ever put in those terms. What was said was that we should not adopt economic sanctions because we did not think that economic sanctions would be successful. What we did discuss was the need to correlate our policies.

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