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PRIVATE AND PERSONAL.

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July, 1939.

My dear Burchell,

Luyen vi học.

With reference to ay letter o" even date

about the above case, I really must tell you that I feel

very dissatisfied with what happened at the Privy Council.

You will remember that I was sent for just as Coun sel

were going into the Chaaber, and asked to concur in a

settlement; and you will probably agree that, having

said,

regard to what Cripps said, and to his attitude, I bad

no option but to assent. I felt at the time, and I

still feel, however, that his objections were as much

political as legal, and it really raises an impossible

position for us if Counsel are to object to arguing points

of law before the Privy Council because they object to the

This is a matter for the Secretary

politics of the case.

of State, and not for them.

CHARLES BURCHELL, ESQ.

Yours sincerely,

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