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made in Parliament, his intervention should always take place at the earliest possible stage. Just what that stage may be I am not sure. Perhaps in these new circumstances he need no longer await the outcome of a petition for special leave to appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as provided in paragraph 19 of the 1969 FCO memorandum which you copied to me on 14 June. Even were it for some good reason still necessary to wait that long, perhaps he could act immediately if such leave was refused. My concern is to spare Sir Peter Ramsbotham (and any other Governor, here or elsewhere, in any other case) the harrowing task of fixing a date for an execution and subsequently having to postpone it, possibly several times. I am the more concerned about the matter in that, as I told Harry in my letter of 18 May, a series of postponements might have security implications on this particular occasion.
Yours ever. Peter Lloyd.
G P Lloyd
Acting Governor
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