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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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