CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908 — Page 39

Dear Helland,

Treasury Chambers,

Whitehall, S.W.

9 March 1908

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Our people quite concur in your proposed reply to Nuttall's question. If we back it out, it would be a humiliation (not the form Chancellor of the Exchequer) but he would prefer C.O. to fight it out.

Jam don't hand the ...

John Mad...ing

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