There are other alternatives on which I have
asked for the Governor's preliminary views, as in the
attached telegram.
None of this helps me very much with this particular
But if the case on which I have to advise The Queen.
political reasons above were overwhelming I would have (against my reading of the actual case) to advise
clemency and give no public reason.
ALLS POU
10 May, 1973
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, S.W.1.
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