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point further with the PUS and with Mr Thomson, if possible before the Governor's departure on 25 June. Mr Thomson suggested that, as a minimum change, we might add to the first passage something on the lines of "... but this must be qualified by professional advice on the needs of the internal security situation". This
would be better than nothing, though still misleading. Failing anything else I think we should at least insist on the deletion of the sentence in the second passage quoted above, "It will be difficult but not impossible to manage this". As it stands this is a flat statement that the garrison can be reduced by half without damaging confidence. It is misleading.
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