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The Shah asked whether we were going to withdraw Inmediately from Simonstown. I said that this would take time. He said that, in the new circumstances, he quite understood that we had no need of. Simonstown.
16. At this point the conversation turned to economic and financial matters. At the end of the Audience, T referred to my undertaking to send to the Shah the full text of the Secretary of State for Defence's statciment and to invite his comments. The Shah said that be old lcome this but that he had already reacted (as above). 1 took this to mean, both from his words and his manner, that he had no objections to our proposals and that he might not even trouble to comment further.
ག ་ ་ 7 am serding a text of Mr lason's statement to alam today and will let you know that reaction, if any, T reecive.
12. A11 in all the session went as rell as it possibly could have. The Shah was obviously pleasantly surprised by the marginal nature of our with rawals and veductions, by the fact that we were staying in Oman and going ahi
ith Diego Garcia and the Through Deck Cruiser le th F We would still be in the act in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf.
Yours evei
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A D Parsons
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TJ Clark Esq, MED FCO DF Hawley Esq CNG MF, Muscat Sir H Phillips KCMG Ankara
Sir T Garvey KCMG Moscow
H Walsh Esq, Chancellor of the Duchy's of Lancast
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