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Volume #25 - 458. | |
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CHAPITRE III EXTRÊME-ORIENT | |
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3E PARTIE LA RÉPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DE CHINE | |
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SECTION
A MISSION COMMERCIALE CANADIENNE | |
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DEA/9030-40 |
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Note du sous-secrétaire d'État aux Affaires extérieures pour le secrétaire d'État aux Affaires extérieures | |
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Confidential |
Ottawa,
le 13 septembre 1958 |
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VISIT TO CHINA OF MR. T. M. POPE | |
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The Minister of Trade and Commerce has authorized Mr. C. M. Forsyth-Smith, Canadian Government Trade Commissioner in Hong Kong, to visit Communist China in mid-October to study the market there for Canadian wheat and other commodities and to investigate the feasibility of a Canadian Trade Mission visiting mainland China at a later date. 2. The Department of Trade and Commerce has requested our approval for Mr. T. M. Pope to accompany Mr. Forsyth-Smith on his trip to China, either as an assistant to the Trade Commissioner or as an interpreter. Mr. Pope is an officer of the Department of External Affairs who has been studying Chinese in London and Hong Kong for the past two years and who will remain in Hong Kong for another year to combine language studies with official reporting duties. 3. There would be definite advantages for all concerned if Mr. Pope accompanied Mr. Forsyth-Smith on his trip to China. The Department of External Affairs would benefit from Mr. Pope's observations on conditions in China and these would be doubly useful coming from a Canadian who is also a member of the department. He would be a genuine asset to the Department of Trade and Commerce in assisting Mr. Forsyth-Smith and particularly in providing a reliable check on the official Chinese interpreters who will inevitably participate in trade discussions. Finally, the proposed trip would afford Mr. Pope an opportunity of gaining practical language experience of a type which is not available in the course of his Hong Kong language studies. I, therefore, recommend that Mr. Pope be authorized to visit Communist China as an assistant to Mr. Forsyth-Smith. J.W. H[OLMES] | |
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