M. Highan. Please see
Th. Trafford Smith minute.
You may find the following useful for
today's meeting:-
1) a pessment of the
exact nature of the
threat & Hong Kong by the Ministry of Defence at (104) + Chief of Staff at (134) + (148) 5) Part II of the sepp.;
2) the moot immediate danger is thought the internal musest, (81), euch. No.l, pail,
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+ (83), where the need
Services
is sheased;
3) scope of operations.
I run essential
see Th. Wallace's
minute of 11.5.49, para. 2, where the
implication
if that
it is possible
to
Send more troops than are needed & deal with the Chinese, but too few deal with
Russian attack, involving the risk of
discstions blow;
any
a
стиву
4) новино
a suggestion in (108)
(Memorandum by Thinister of Defence) that there
would be no effective redewas
k meet
any emergency, battalion & meet emergency
in Malaya
in
the U.K.
except " an odd
calls"
presumably
as well as elsewhere. (Para. 9c).
145) effect on Malaya :- (72), par. 3, the
recent improvement in the
be
siruation could
endangered by temporary diversion of
(CRO. tel to Dominions); this
the gamison
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comment was, however, made in April, & the
despatch of one
battalion by
air
in
case of sudden emergency. Cabinet Paper at (108), para. 6, questions Dether suggest that by September the Grands Brigade" could probably be spared.. without undue effect
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