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5.
The Governor has sent me this letter on a personal basis.
I therefore do not think we should circulate it or submit it further.
5 December 1973
A C Stuart
Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.
with
адми
para
4.of
Mr Stuart's
sninute.
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to me
Мето
that to try to abolish
the death sentence, except in the context of a
curunt case,
would
be as
politically difficult for
Minesten here
as
Wape it would be in the
envisaged.
circumstances noww
would aronse all the centimery
the
untimerry in this country
general prenaple of abolition, and Minesten
would not what to stir up that kind
of trouble
10
tay
to do so
over
unless it was
unavoidable.
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I full understand the givenn's wish to escape for the conturining
& uncertainty to which the decision
difficulty
the Cami as
Cong
суке
Coun
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the Trol care
Cas
Expired him. But I aque that we must avoid action to ablish
Rowever, the being Pin Fat malks it a head wey som.
Dan Waldm
case
as we
may hing
ponibe
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