TNAG-0077-FCO40-113-Action-against-Communist-press-1967 — Page 202

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Your telegram No. 662.

Disturbances.

Ministers approve courses II and IV.

On course II imposition of curfew might be preferable to declaration of closed areas but Ministers leave decision on actual method to you.

On course IV Secretary of State for Defence has concurred. We assume that you will invite C.inC. F.E. to take executive action.

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