information.
You might think that I
should have waited until I was in a
position to tell you the outcome of all
this, which we shall presumably know
before long in view of the urgency of the
matter. But the fact is that we do not
yet know what the outcome will be.
3. I do not need to say that it wou be
i
most undesirable if Colonel Clage, for
example, were to learn any more than he
is able to guess about the state of play.
If you needed to say something to him, I
would see no harm in his being told that
the whole question was under urgent con-
sideration, but that is all. In spite of
what we say in the letter about lingering
doubts that political risks must have
played some part in the ECGD assessment
of the guarantees necessary to cover
the commercial risk, this is of course the
one thing to which we must never at any
time, now, or in the future, plead guilty.
Public opinion may draw what conclusions
it likes, and from the Governor's telegram
they have obviously done so, but we must
never be heard to admit that they are
anywhere near the truth.
4•
I was sorry not to have seen Holdsworth
when he called here not long ago; he
will, I understand already be with you.
But although we were ready for him, it so
happened that on the morning of his call
the department was heavily involved with
the question about which amoure you
request for further
Probably
Q
have, heard, of, Swedish, restrictions on
ん
of Swedish
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