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-2- 810, June 8, 7 p.m. from New York. also like to know our thinking on composition of POC group in the event India cannot be persuaded to serve. He mentioned Iraq as one possibility.

Khoman also asked us to ascertain the Department's latest thinking on sponsorship of SC resolution. He indicated Thailand would be quite willing to introduce resolution itself on understanding, of course, that United States and others would ask it be put to vote in accordance with rules as useful debating material. Khoman mentioned recent story in PRAVDA or some other Russian paper on active fighting in Cambodia close to border of Thailand.

At lunch today Johnson (Canada), although noncommittal, seemed generally more sympathetic to our ideas of timing and scope than Perry (New Zealand) who tended to argue current UK line in New York re limiting scope to Thailand.

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