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Your telegrams Nos 406 and 407: YAUMATEI CASES.
not pass the to dota
We regret that it
We agree gesonally the texts in your two TUF subject
to the
rums for the deadline in your first FURL?
following
2. In the stateme
taten
comments.
Saving to:-
2.
paragraph 3 could be taken to
refer to the Officers mentioned in paragraph 1 as well
as parag
suggest this ambiguity be avoided
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
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HKGD
Mr Murray
PS/Lord Goron
Roberts
XB ophes Xto XX
Mr Cortazzi
PS
Overseas Police
Adviser
News Dept
Legal Adviser
by making pagraphs 2 and 3 a single paragraph.
3.
в
While we follow the reasoning behind your
quently hope
propose wording in paragraph 5, we wonder whether
can
avoid
theret to any particuler dvantage in linking this
action specifically with the Amnesty.
here is perhaps too strong an impli
that the
cers concerned are being dismissed co suspicion
We suggest therefore that the second
might
sentence sine end as follows
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it was con-
cluded that it would be in the public interest to use
pending
CR55 in order to deal with these
cases without
further delay".
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