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widespread international interest. the slightest.
None of this moved Bac in
He had obviously I think had tough instructions from the Prime Minister and through the latter no doubt from the President.
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We have no firm date yet for the trial.
When it occurs, I am not proposing, unless you suggest otherwise, to have a member of the staff in court - for one thing, we have only one man who can speak Vietnamese. But I will arrange for our honorary Legal Adviser (who is Vietnamese) to attend as far as possible. I imagine that Hong Kong at any rate will wish to have immediate reports of the case to be able to deal with local journalistic accounts and comment.
J C W Bushell
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