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Your telegram No. 2015 of 23 September7:
Detainees.
We continue to attach importance to demonstratin
to the Chinese that reasonable behaviour on their
part could yield them advantages which harsh
tactics have not.
However, in the matter of
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detainees, in view of the arguments you have
advanéed particularly in relation to security, we
agree that you should for the time being proceed on
the lines of paragraph 5 of your telegram.
In the
course of our consulations with you here in the
week beginning 21 October, we shall however wish to
review the whole problem with you, particularly in points made
the light of the argumenter <partxforward in Peking
telegrams Nos. 898 and 905, and your tel. No. 2038.