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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Central British "White Paper" on Guatemala.
hereto, pursuant to your request of thla morning.opy of tie British Foreign Office "Report on Events leading up to and arising out of the Change of Regime inVidiich was prepared by the Foreign Office for presentation to the British Parliament as the result of an undertaking given at the time of the Parliamentary debates of June and July.
The principal feature of tills White Paper is the opening document, vis. the dispatch which begins on Pagerom the British Minister in Guatemala to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, datedU. Thisost admirable version of the entire series of developments in Guatemala and coning at the beginning of the paper, as it does,rame of reference and sets the tone for all of the balance of the correspondence snd debates which follow. The rest of the documentationather tedious and dreary compilation of the records of proceedings of the United Nations Security Council,ll of which wereatter of public recordand thus neither odd to nor subtract from thepublicly available on the subject.
For your own information, we have th* British Embassy here, and particularly Messrsio thank for the handling of this matter. You willat we were quiteabout what might appear in the White Paper and had numerous discussions with the Embassy about this matter. We also furnished
a certain amount of information to the Embassy which was in turn passed on to the Foreign Office. It is by.no means beyond the realm of possibility that the opening dispatch or"Julyas influenced by these efforts and that the general form, if not the content, wss suggested to the British Minister in Guatemala by the Foreign Office.
Attachment! British White Paper on Guatemala, as described.
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The rerort er Vajesty'a Minister at Ousteaala to theState frr foreigndated July aper whichanyone who followed the events in Ouste-cila should be proudcomposed. It Is at the stint*lear stntcnent of fact Endstatement of British position wlte re??rd tc the changein Cuatevtals. So clear is thst lattertt onethis report was orepsred in the ro-tine So obviousintent tbat it would seen that the first hand that Oipped tho learuesty. Vr-etheless, it ishis riece addressee himself to his assiprirept withgoodwill ande-*thusiasaoth of which -niilitiesoroeeHaa to thi*
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