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hope Mr Stewart will do his best to ensure this.
I do not, however, think that we can or should now go back to our FCO Ministers to ask them to reconsider the basic proposal. I still think that it would cause a political storm if a death penalty were now carried out in a British dependency.
20 September 1977
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R N Posnett
Dependent Territories Adviser
Cory to:
Mr Cortazzi
Mr Stratton
Mr Bickford
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