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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
DRAFT
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
To:-
Type 1 +
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
and that much, more is needed
Department
thinking that you were rather isolated and not always
kept fully in the picture. But I went on to hope that
this was no longer the case, at least to the same degree. I wonder whether over the next month you will have time to write and let me know quite frankly
whether your situation has been at all improved by
the institution of this system of newsletters. I
shall not mind if you tell me that it has been of
little advantage: indeed I would prefer you to be outspoken. But in preparing for your successor's arrival it would be useful to have your opinion on the present state of dealings between us. of course
I realise that the Tunnel affair has led in any case
etween to a more regulàr flow of information to and from ECGD, the Board of Trade and yourself. But will matters revert when the deal is concluded?