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at our instance have recently asked Sir R. Stevenson to adopt a completely non-committal attitude towards any questions from the press about the future of the se places and to say that he is not in a position to make any statement on that matter.

The draft telegram now submitted results from discussion between Mr. Mayle and myself. We have tried, while making our point clearly, to put it in a way which avoids giving Sir M. Young any grounds for thinking that we doubt the wisdom of his recent action or would wish unduly to better his judgment in handling any future emergency.

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Following on our brief talk about this

yesterday I had a word with Mr. MacDougall and, informally, showed him the draft. He did not feel that Sir M. Young would take it amiss, but we worked out in discussion one piece of re-wording (inserted marginally on the second page) which should, we feel, go far to mitigate any slight risk that there might be of rubbing him up the wrong way.

In its new form the danger of this should, I think, be very slight indeed and I suggest that the draft might now be referred to the Foreign Office.

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