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are in doubt or dannot agree
which is rare, then it is up to the to come back to their parent departments in Londen. For my part I am sure that this approach is right and we should not want to change it.
5. For exercises laid on from the United Kingdom it is, of course, the Ministry of Defence's responsibility to seek any necessary political clearance and this works without any undue difficulty.
6. As far as Caricature is concerned I would not myself feel that there has been a failure of communication so far as we are concerned but if you and the Commonwealth office would like to have a talk about the situation as a whole we should be happy to have one. My representative would be Bill Munford in 1811, If you would like to have a talk then perhaps you could nominate someone to get int touch with him. I have sent a copy of this letter to Galsworthy
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F. COOPER
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COOPER)