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BRIEFING FOR TODAYS MEETING. 1 RECOUNTED HISTORY IN OBJECTIVE DETAIL. RISAKOTTA COMMENTED THAT MALAYSIAN ACTION SEEMED TO REFLECT REFUSAL TO RECOGNISE REALITIES AND A

GREEDINESS MASKED BY MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE, HE ASKED WHETHER WE PROPOSE TO BUY PEACE BY FURTHER CONCESSIONS UNJUSTIFIED ON CIVIL AVIATION GROUNDS. I SAID I DID NOT KNOW BUT SHARED HIS VIEW THAT SURRENDER WOULD SET EXPENSIVE PRECEDENT IN OTHER CONTEXTS, ONLY PARTLY IN JOKE HE RECALLED THAT THE BLAND INDONESIAN NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF THE UK/INDONESIAN ASA IN 1971 HAD HAD THE EFFECT OF (IN HIS WORDS) BRINGING THE

UK TO ITS SENSES,

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NEWS D

LEGAL ADVISERS PS

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PS/MR JUDD PS/PUS

SIR A DUFF MR BUTLER MR CORTAZZI MR BURROWS

MR MURRAY

MR HALL

MR SUTHERLAND MR THOMAS.

MR HAYES

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