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presence in Australia, or to start consultations on the basis of retaining a presence in Malaysia and Singapore on the lines of Study No. 7 (with the associated political and military consequences described in this report),
are a matter of dispute between Departments, whose views on substance and
also on timing which is crucial are set out in paragraphs 40-42 above.
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57. Depending on the decisions of Ministers, the necessary consultations
with our friends and allies will have to be set in hand at once.
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