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De notice of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
I have taken the opportunity at the same time of embodying in the Memorandum some additional notes and information, which I think may be of interest. The more important of these new passages I have marked for easy reference in the copy enclosed with this Despatch. I would especially draw Your Lordship's attention to the passage marked on page 13-14.
The net result is that the Memorandum is practically re-written in a form which is more suitable for publication and less likely to give offence.
In paragraph 4 of Your Lordship's Despatch Confidential of January 8th, you pointed out that the action which I recommended is inconsistent with the policy announced to Parliament and communicated to me in Your Lordship's telegram of May 5th. I would, however, remind Your Lordship that while expressing my opinions regarding Divans, I suggested a means which went beyond anything proposed by His Majesty's Government and was, in my view at any rate, calculated more effectively to give effect to that policy. I venture therefore to hope that Your Lordship will consider that I did not oppose the policy you had announced, but only suggested an alternative and...