CAMBODIAN RIOTING
Butler Seeks Assurances (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) LONDON, March 11. The British Foreign Secretary (Mr Butler) today sent a personal message to the Cambodian Government, expressing shock at the damage to the British Embassy and the British Council offices in a demonstration in Phnom Penh. A Foreign Office spokesman said Mr Butler’s message sought clarification of the future intentions of the Cambodian Government. In particular it asked for an assurance that adequate measures would in future be taken for the protection of the British Embassy and British subjects and property in Cambodia. The spokesman said that after Mr Peter Murray, the British Ambassador, made his initial protest Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Cambodian Head of State, sent a Minister to the Embassy to offer his personal apologies. The Minister said Cambodia would make up any damage. Mr Butler told Parliament only last Monday that he was continuing the attempt to prepare a "generally acceptable basis” for an international conference aimed at reinforcing Cambodia’s neutrality.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30389, 13 March 1964, Page 13
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