Ed. (3746)
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
Registry HWB 1/23
No.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret
Secret.
Comfiuential.
estricted
Uncrassier
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
DRAFT letter
To:-
MD.1. Gass by.
C.M.G.
Type 1 +
From
Au Carter.
10
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
14 August 1967
JAG
Hongkong.
I
am sorry that we
have not sent an earlier
(7) reply of the Groves formal
despatch reporting developmens from December 1966 to June 1967 My fortunately these secur to have theen sound difficytry in printing from the Copied sopptil received
which, as you
as you will
be aware,
has now
been printed.
u
Our only comment is
on para. 16 third sentence in which it is said that
५
On our side, we cannot
a casus belli
afford to provide
which would compel Paking to intervene militarily.
We think that "directly"
.