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days to go before preliminary developments take
place and we cannot see the relevant factors
changing materially before then.
6.
Bearing in mind the grave risk that there
is of this exercise provoking
a serious the chap de chefs of Staff
Chinese reaction, we do hope that your will agree
to cancelling the exercise.
Chay If we do not
feel able to do this, we consider that the
decision to proceed with the exercise should be
taken by Ministers.
7. I am copying this letter, without ✰*
enclosure to Major General Gibbon in the Chiefs
of Staff Secretariat and Sir Arthur Galsworthy
in the Commonwealth Office.