CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT TELEGRAM
CHRISTIAN
FOR ASTON FROM ROYCE (OPG)
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I HAVE SENT YOU BY
BAG, FOR ONWARD TRANSMISSION TO
CLAGUE, A LETTER FROM THE BRITISH CROUP ADDRESSED TO THE
STEERING COLLIITNEE A SIMILAR LETTER FROM THE ITALIAN
GROUP IS BEING SENT THROUGH THE ITALIAN CONCUL-GEN IRAL.
2. UNLESS YOU SEE ANY OBJECTION YOU CHOULD, AS SOCH AS
YOU DEM IT APPROPRIATE, SPEAK TO HADDEN-CAVE AND MAKE
THE FOLLOWING POINTS:-
a.
GOVERNMENT
WHILE THE UK REGNET THAT THERE IS TO BE NO ALL
BRITISH BID THEY WELCOME THE FORMATION OF THE ANGLO-
ITALIAN GROUP, WHOSE RESOURCES, EXPERIENCE AND PARTICULAR
STRENGTHS IN THE DIFFERENT FINDO COVERED BY THE SCHEE
ARE A WARRANT OF THE CROUP'S ABILITY TO WORK TO THE
HIGHEST STANDARDS.
D. THE COMBINED CROUP HAS HOT BEEN ABLE TO QUOTE A
PRICE BECAUSE SOME OF THE INFORMATION HEIDED TO ARRIVE AP
A DEFINITIVE FIGURE IS LACKING. BUT THEY HAVE MADE A
NUMBER OF ESTIMATES AND ARECONVINCED THAT EVEN ON
PESSIMISTIC ASSUMPTIONS OF SUCH UNCERTAINTIES AS COST
of the same orde
07 ESCALATION THEIR PRICE WILL BE FLY COMPETITIVA-7WN mas nitude as that of the Japanese bid, and that itw offer as a whole will be keenly competitive.
C. THE STEERING COMITTEE HAS VALIDATED THE JAPANESE
GROUP'S BID DESPITE THAT GROUP'S INSISTENCE ON HAVING
A HONG KONG COVERIMENT GUARANTEE AND IT IS TO BE HOPED
THAT THE COMMITTEE WILL BE AS FLEXIBLE IN ASSESSING
THE ANGLO-ITALIAN GROUP'S FROPOCALS AGAINST THE
COMMITTEE'S CRITERIA,
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