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PRIVATE AND PERSONAL.
193
July, 1939.
My dear Burchell,
Luyen vi học.
With reference to ay letter o" even date
about the above case, I really must tell you that I feel
very dissatisfied with what happened at the Privy Council.
You will remember that I was sent for just as Coun sel
were going into the Chaaber, and asked to concur in a
settlement; and you will probably agree that, having
said,
regard to what Cripps said, and to his attitude, I bad
no option but to assent. I felt at the time, and I
still feel, however, that his objections were as much
political as legal, and it really raises an impossible
position for us if Counsel are to object to arguing points
of law before the Privy Council because they object to the
This is a matter for the Secretary
politics of the case.
of State, and not for them.
CHARLES BURCHELL, ESQ.
Yours sincerely,
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