CYPHER/ CAT A
CONFIDENTIAL
IMMEDIATE HONG KONG
TELEGRAM NUMBER 305 CONFIDENTIAL
TO FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
NOVEMBER 26/1969
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PERSONAL FOR CARTER FROM NORMAN-WALKER.
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GRATEFUL YOU PASS FOLLOWING PERSONALLY TO SIR DAVID TRENCH.
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I HAVE REPLIED MODERATELY BUT DEFINITELY TO F.C.0. TELEGRAM
225) NO. 752 IN MY TELEGRAM NO. 884 ALTHOUGH THE POINTS RAISED IN PARA. 3
THEREOF ARE OF COURSE PRECISELY THOSE WHICH HAVE BEEN EXERCISING
OUR MINDS. YOU WILL PROBABLY WISH TO KNOW THE TEXT CF MY REPLY
WAS PROVIDED BY MICHAEL HOGAN AT MY REQUEST AND HAS ISSUED PRACT-
ICALLY UNALTERED.
2.
I MYSELF, AND I BELIEVE YOU TOO, WOULD IN THIS VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION HAVE PREFERRED TO SEE AN INCONTESTABLY ACCEPTABLE
CANDIDATE APPOINTED FROM OUTSIDE. HAVING SERVED WITH RIGSY IN NYASA LAND I AM PERHAPS AS WELL AWARE OF HIS SHORTCOMINGS AS ANYONE ELSE, BUT THE SHORT POINT IS THAT IF ONE OF THE LOCAL BENCH IS TO BE
APPOINTED, WHILE BLAIR-KERR WOULD NOT REACT UNFAVOURABLY TO RIGBY'S APPOINTMENT, THE CONVERSE IS TO SAY THE LEAST UNTRUE, AND I DO NOT THINK THAT THE WORD ''DISRUPTION'' WHICH I USED IN
MY PREVIOUS PERSONAL TELEGRAM IS BY ANY MEANS TOO STRONG TO DESCRIBE THE RESULTING SITUATION IN THE SUPREME COURT.
THIS MAY NOT BE
A ''GOOD' ADDITIONAL REASON FOR PREFERRING RIGBY BUT IT IS
A VERY COMPELLING ONE.
SIR H. NORMAN WALKER.
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RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No.51 2 C NOV 1969
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