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we accept that visits by smaller nuclaar ships may

attract less attention than those of cruisers and

carriers, we continue to regard the visit of any

nuclear ship as "particularly controversial", under

your definition. If pressed, we suggest you

should tell the Americans you are willing to

recommend that, depending on the state of our

relations with China at any given time, you should

have discretion to consider sympathetically two

additional visits a year by smaller nuclear ships

i.e. frigates and submarines, preferably the latter,

up to a limit of about six visits a year for all

types of nuclear vessels, with visits spaced at

roughly two monthly intervals.

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