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THERE IS COLLATERAL FOR BOTH THESE POINTS IN RONARKS #ADDON-CAVE MADE TO HOLLAND (FCC CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISER) ON FRIDAY WHICH HOLLAND REPORTED TO ME.
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KINDERSLEY UNDERSTANDS THAT HADION-CAVE'S INTENTION AT THE END OF THE WEEK IS TO NOTIFY OTHER GROUPS OF A VALIDATED PRE-EMPTIVE EVEN IF GUARANTEE POINT IS STILL NOT MET. WWLESS HE CHANGES THE RULES AND HE HAS GIVEN NO KINT OF INTENTION FORMALLY TO DO SO AT PRESENT THERE WILL THEN BE THIRTY DAYS IN WHICH COUNTER **PRE-EMPTIVE COULD BE MADE. HE HAS SAID THAT HE WOULD WELCOME AN ANGLO-ITALIAN BID, TERMS OF WHICH SEEM TO BE WELL KNOWN TO HIM ALTHOUGH KINDERSLEY HAS NOT HIMSELF GIVEN THEM IN ANY DETAIL. (1 UNDERSTAND INCIDENTALLY THAT KADOORIE ALSO KNOWS DETAILS OF ITALIAN PROPOSAL FOR JOINT BID FROM THE ITALIANS WHOM HE IS TRYING TO REPRESENT, BUT HAS NOT YET BEEN APPOINTED).
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KINDERSLEY EXPRESSED SURPRISE TO HADDON-CAVE THAT JAPANESE BID WAS ACCEPTABLE AS A PRE-EMPTIVE" WHEN IT DOES NOT MEET DESIDERATA AND, ESPECIALLY, DOES NOT MEET THE NO GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE ON WHICH HADDON-CAVE HAS BEEN SO INSISTENT THROUGHOUT NEGOTIATIONS WITH ALL CONSORTIA. HADDON-CAVE RETORTED THAT HE HAD NEVER SAID THAT ALL DESIDERATA MUST BE MET FOR A PRE-EMPTIVE BID TO BE VALID BUT ONLY THAT SOME 'MUST'', OTHERS
OTHERS 'SHOULD’* AND OTHERS
HE ADMITTED THAT GUARANTEE QUESTION
HAD HITHERTO BEEN A ''MUST' BUT OTHERS OF STEERING GROUP WERE NOV LESS FIRM ON IT.
WERE ''PREFERABLE'.
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IN GUR JOINT VIEW THIS IS AN ODD
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PRE-EMPTIVE”
AND IF IT IS ACCEPTED AS GROUNDS FOR REQUIRING OTHERS TO MATCH IT !! THIETY DAYS THEN THEY QUGHT TO BE ALLOWED EXCEPTIONS SIMILAR IN DEGREE.
AS LEAST THIS SHOULD MEAN THAT
HE NEED NOT MEET ALL THE ORIGINAL DESINEPATA BUT ONLY