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plan to be that contained in Colonel Moody's letter to the Inspector General of Engineers dated April 1963, a copy of which was furnished to me. There was no new plan "offices then administering the 'Government'" and further that Colonel Lovell "proposes for the extension of the Cantonments into the Harbor, but merely recalls attention to Colonel Moody's front. It was hereupon considered unaccept. I forward copies of his letter."

De... principle involved in that explanation appears to his Excellency much too important to be passed over without a very distinct understanding of what he had previously regarded as the plain duty of the officer Commanding the Troops. His Excellency has no wish to enter needlessly into any controversial discussion, but differs so entirely from the General's view above expressed of Colonel Moody's letter, and has been so inconveniently misled thereby, that with a view to the prevention of future misconception upon topics such as these, he feels obliged to state his opinion of the letter which the General regarded as sufficient.

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What I have therefore to request is that you will bring to the General's notice that no plan whatever...

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114 plan to be that contained in Colonel Moody's letter to the Inspector General of Engineers dated April 1963, a copy of which was furnished to me. There was no new plan "offices then administering the 'Government'" and further that Colonel Lovell "proposes for the extension of the Cantonments into the Harbor, but merely recalls attention to Colonel Moody's front. It was hereupon considered unaccept. I forward copies of his letter." De... principle involved in that explanation appears to his Excellency much too important to be passed over without a very distinct understanding of what he had previously regarded as the plain duty of the officer Commanding the Troops. His Excellency has no wish to enter needlessly into any controversial discussion, but differs so entirely from the General's view above expressed of Colonel Moody's letter, and has been so inconveniently misled thereby, that with a view to the prevention of future misconception upon topics such as these, he feels obliged to state his opinion of the letter which the General regarded as sufficient. AA 3 What I have therefore to request is that you will bring to the General's notice that no plan whatever...
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