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8th October 1971
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Dear bound
I write to let you have copies of
our Information Services' Press Review No 142 about the Defence Contribution;
the speeches made in Legislative Council on the same
subject by Philip Haddon-Cave, P. C. Woo and John Browne; and
(c) the Press Release about it issued immediately after
Legislative Council had met.
Our Hansard record of Wednesday's Legislative Council meeting is not yet ready, so the version of the three speeches now enclosed is not definitive; but certainly it does not vary in any significant way from what was actually said.
The Press Review only covers material which appeared in the newspapers before Legislative Council met. A further Review will be prepared in a few days with comment made afterwards, and I will send you a copy of it. Meanwhile it is fair to say present indications are that (as we hoped) we may now escape without too serious a fuss. But we shall be sending you a telegram early next week, once the position is rather clearer, and as it should arrive at much the time this letter does I will not comment further here
RECEIVED IN
REGISTRY No. 51
TC OCT 1971
Yurs sincerely, Peter Lloyd.
(G. P. Lloyd) Defence Secretary
E.O. Laird, Esq, CMG, OBE,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, LONDON.
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