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HAVE.HE REALISED THAT HMG HAD BEEN UNDER HEAVY
SSURE OVER THE NIGHTINGALE CASE AND SAID THAT HIS
GOVERNMENT SYMPATHISED WITH THEIR POSITION.
HE KNEW OF THE CONSTANT HEADLINES
IN THE BRITISH PRESS AND NOTED THAT THERE HAD BEEN INTERNAL DISSENTION. IN THE PORTIA TRUST,'CAUSED BY ITS ACTIONS ON BELALF OF MISS NIGHTINGALE MIGHT IT NOT BE PREFERABLE, HE SUGGESTED, TO SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE TO SHOW HER INNOCENCE RATHER THAN TO CONDUCT CAMPAIGNS?
7.THE THAI AMBASSADOR IN LONDON HAD REPORTED HIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU, AND THE DEPUTY
UNDER-SECRETARY WISHED MR SUMET TO CONVEY THE GRATEFUL APPRECIATION OF THE THAI GOVERNMENT FOR YOUR DECLARED
INTENTION NOT TO INTERFERE IN THE JUDICIAL
PROCESSES OF THAILAND. HE WISHED ALSO TO EXPRESS
GRATITUDE FOR THE ATTITUDE TAKEN BY THVA EMBASSY THROUGHOUT THE CONDUCT OF THE CASE.WE HAD MAINTAINED SILENCE UNTIL THE JUDICIAL PROCESSES HAD RUN THEIR COURSE AND THIS WAS
GREATLY APPRECIATED.
8. NOW THAT THE CASE HAD CLOSED, HOWEVER, THE THAIS WOULD LIKE TO ASSURE THE EMBASSY THAT THEY MUST NOT HESITATE TO APPROACH THE MINISTRY FOR ANY ASSISTANCE THEY MIGHT NEED FOR MISS NIGHTINGALE.MR SUMET WENT ON TO RELATE THE WAY IN WHICH THE MFA WERE ASSISTING THE GERMAN EMBASSY WITH THE MEDICAL PROBLEMS OF A PRISONER. ALTHOUGH, BY THIS, HE APPEARED TO BE INDICATING THAT THE MFA WERE OFFERING ASSISTANCE ONLY ON THE WELFARE FRONT, HM CONSUL RECEIVED THE DEFINITE IMPRESSION THAT THE MINISTRY INTENDED TO CONVEY THAT THEY WERE INTERESTED IN ENSURING WITH US THAT MISS NIGHTINGALE CASE WAS NOT FORGOTTEN.
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