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equivalent of two (or more) major Army units.
These are the Governor's very tentative
and personal proposals. He emphasizes that
they are based on a garrison at the level of
by no means
73 major units and that he is not at all
sure that he can get such a large increase
(60% on the present contribution by his
calculations) accepted locally. He est for
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It seems to me that this is very muok Our mattor in which we shall have to rely on th
that thin in the woman the could hope to secure and That
feeling here in that the Governor is certainly right in his
Governor's judgment
judgment./ He will have the
teek of persuading his Executive
difficulty took
This figure:
Council and the Finance Committee of the
Legislative Council to agree to the årrenge-
ments end, if a higher contribution is
claimed, we shall in all likelihood become
involved in the kind of unpleasant wrangle
over details that we encountered when the
present contribution was negotiated in 1966.
I am at your service if you would like
to computer the position to have a meeting but, if the size of the
garrison is one of the matters which is
dependent on the review of the situation in
the Far East generally which I understand
that your Secretary of State will be
submitting to his colleagues, it may be more
useful to defer discussion you will have
noted that the Governor has based his estimate
of what he might negotiate, on the supposition
that the garrison would be at the level of
73 major units and, as your letter of 18 May
recognised, the size of the garrison was one
of the factors which it was accepted he could
take into account in arriving at a figure.
I am sending copies of this letter to Gedling and Stretton.
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