price it might be worth our while to pay to prevent
such a severance.
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▲ second question on which the Foreign office
would like definite information is that of the strategical value placed upon the leased territorias, either in whole
o in part, by the military authorities.
If you could find time to let us have a
further memorandum dealing with these two points, it would be much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
t