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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Uhelassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
DRAFT letter
To:-
J. M. Stewart, Esq., DS11,
Ministry of Defence, Whitehall.
Type 1 +
From
A. W. Gaminara Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
In Confidence
10
Copy to
J. Clayton, Esq., Sea Transport
Branch,
Board of Trade, 34/36 Parliament
Street, London, S.W.1.
A
Flag it
with copies of
Inclosures.
The Requisitioning of Ships Order, 1955
cirts
The enclosed memorandum with its annexes sets out
the background to the subject matter of this letter.
The last reference that I can give you is top secret
letter FED 528/400/03 of 31 January, 1958, addressed by
the Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies to the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
and copied to the Private Secretary to the Minister of
Defence.
Perhaps you would be good enough to let me know
whether you see any objection to our going ahead with
the making of the Requisitioning of Ships Order, 1969,
(see Annex C to the enclosed memorandum). You will note
that what we are proposing amounts to little more than
áre
a formality and is intended merely to revoke the exist-
ing 1955 and 1958 Orders and replace them by an up-to-
date version. On a point of detail, it seems to us to
be preferable for the revocation provision in Clause 6
of the new draft Order to be put into a separate Order
so that if it ever became necessary for the new Order to
be published and brought into effect, such publication
would not disclose the existence of the 1955 and 1958
Orders which have never been published.
Perhaps you
would say whether you agree with this view.
I am sending a copy of this letter and of its
enclosures to Clayton in the Sea Transport Branch of the
(118281) Dd. 391599 1,500м 2/69 Hw.
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