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WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE GROUPS PRICING EXERCISE. TACTICS WILL THEREFORE NEED CAREFUL PREPARATION, AND WE SHALL NEED ALL THE EARS
WE CAN MUSTER TO TRY TO PICK UP ECHOS OF WHAT OTHERS HAVE PROPOSED.
4. IF WE GET THIS WRONG, EITHER IN 'INTELLIGENCE'' OR IN TACTICS
WE COULD EITHER FIND OURSELVES PRICED OUT AT THIS STAGE OR ELSE THE PROJECT BEING SPLIT UP INTO LARGE FRAGMENTS. WILKINS HINTED TODAY THAT ONE POSSIBILITY MIGHT BE A PACKAGE FOR E AND M AND TENDER FOR CIVIL (ON WHICH HE REMARKED THAT CONTINEGNCIES'' ARE PARTICULARLY HIGH).
5. HOPE THEREFORE YOU WILL SUPPORT IDEA OF EARLIER ARRIVAL AND OF A LEADER OF STATURE, PERSONALITY AND TACTICAL INSTINCT.
6. IN ANTICIPATION HAVE RESERVED YOUR ACCOMMODATION FROM NIGHT
OF 26 JUNE AT MANDARIN.
7. CLAGUE WILL NOT BE HERE TO ASSIST BRIEFINGS. HE IS ON USUAL LONG SUMMER VACATION AT PRESENT AT ASCOT TELEPHONE NO 21145. IT MIGHT BE USEFUL IF A MEETING WITH HIM COULD BE ARRANGED AS FOLLOW UP TO FELL'S PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS TO GET HIS BROAD REACTIONS TO THE PRICE INDICATION PROSOSAL WHICH HE HAS NOT YET SEEN.
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