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the ares and with the chiefs of state of the several Southeast Asian countries. He should go to Formosa, the Philippines, Thailand, the Associated States, Malaya, and Indonesia. Thereafter, he should probably also go to Korea and Japan. It is not thought that the special representative should go except upon receipt of a specific invitation from the Burmese government.

6. The special representative should enter into any discussions with the governments of Southeast Asia through the respective Ambassadors and any arrangements made with those governments should be consumated by the Ambassadors or by tho government itself.

7. It should be the publicly announced mission of the special representative to undertake a fact-finding mission. He should not himself publicly interfere or intercede in the continuing relations by the U.S. and the Southeast Asian countries or among the several Southeast Asian states themselves.

8. On the contrary, the special representative should act only as a catalytic agent and should offer to assist in the solution of problem areas by appropriate intercession in the U.S. For this purpose, the special representative should initially be based in the U.S. although for his initial survey he may wish to establish an advance headquarters with a small staff in some appropriate Southeast Asian country.

9. It should also be the mission of the special representative to seek an expansion of bilateral and multilateral agreements between the several Southeast Asian states such as those already established between Cambodia and Laos and between Thailand and Viet Nam.

10. Initial agreements may probably best be obtained in the field of economic or cultural, agreements; defense arrangements should initially be secondary. Rh