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XCS(75)1
3.
Public Relations and Compensation
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The Provisional Authority realised that an announcement
of the break-off of negotiations with the Japanese Consortium could generate serious political and economic repercussions and considered that these repercussions could best be mitigated by issuing a statement-
(a) that the Japanese Consortium would pay com-
pensation (on a basis subsequently to be agreed)
for breaking off the negotiations; and
(b) that the Government would proceed with an
underground railway.
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