CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 369

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My dear Fay,

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3rd July,1919.

I am sorry that an answer to your letter of

It would not the 9th of Jụng has been so long delayed. do for us to embarrass the Foreign Office by pressing for the return of Eliot at this juncture, but we have been in communication with them and with Severn on the

subject.

Aş regarde your postscript it is not the case that a Governor on retiring is privileged to make recommendations for Honours. He is supposed to have done that during his tenure of office in connection with the Birthday and New Year'ı Qeta.

Yours sincerely,

(SD) G.V.FIDDES.