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purposes; and another on intelligence, counter-
subversion and social welfare. We asked the
military
Joint Planners to prepare the military paper.
Our view is that the UK. side of the
Group
4. Anglos. Washington Working Party should use these papers our hope is
group
as their brief, and that the Working Party as a
whole should produce a report which would present
the United States Government with much the same
issue as had been presented previously to U.K.
acceptancy
Ministers, namely the four assumptions. It may
4.S. Gavl
be that the latter would require more military
planning to be done before yielding, but we hope we hope
not. The main aim of the military paper would be
to show what we could do with what we've got.
We fully accept the wisdom of initiating a joint
detailed plan (once the political assumptions have with the Americans
been agreed in the Far East itself.
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Essentially what we disagree with is
sequence (b) in paragraph 10 of the J.P. paper.
We suspect, however, that the whole sequence is a
it contains in ition
X
little too rigid and that it
some undesirable features such as introducing
Anglo-U.S. planning on political measures for
counter-subversion
What we would like would be
for the paper to be put on one side for the time
being, and for the U.K. Preparatory Working Party
to have an opportunity of meeting with the
Planners with a view to working out a paper which
would fit in with the general line of approach
which I have indicated above. We realise that in
preparing J.P.(57)165 the Planners have in fact
done no more than they were asked to in
Hooper's letter of December 4th (JPQ.255), but
since that letter was written the Faratory
Working