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RECEIVED OVE
23 JAN 1978
DESK OFFICEN
FM FCO 2015 02
INDEX
PA
(100)
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NO. 51
REGISTRY
Action Taken
JJ. &
UNCLASSIFIED No JJ.
TO ROUTINE HAMILTON TELNO 17 OF 20 JANUARY.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: LORD KENNET'S PQ
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1. TEXT OF SUPPLEMENTARIES AND REPLIES IS AS FOLLOWS: BEGINS
LORD KENNET: MY LORDS, I THANK THE NOBLE LORD FOR HIS HELPFUL ANSWER. IN VIEW OF THE RECENT RIOTS WITH LOSS OF LIFE FOLLOWING THE EXECUTIONS IN BERMUDA AND OF THE DEPLORABLE CHARGES WHICH WERE HURLED ABOUT AMONG THE PEOPLE OF BERMUDA AND BETWEEN BERMUDA AND LONDON, WILL THE GOVERNMENT NOW CONSIDER THE DESIRABILITY OF AMENDING THE CREECH JONES DOCTRINE AND OF SAYING TO OUR FEW REMAINING COLONIES: QUOTE IF YOU WANT TO STAY WITH US YOU MUST TAKE US AS YOU FIND US AND YOU MUST TAKE THE SMOOTH WITH THE SMOOTH AND ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY? UNQUOTE.
LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS: MY LORDS, MY NOBLE FRIEND IS AWARE, OF COURSE, THAT MY RIGHT HONOURABLE FRIEND THE FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY HAS INVITED THE OTHER PLACE TO DEBATE THIS MATTER IN ITS ENTIRETY WITH A VIEW TO RESOLVING OUTSTANDING DIFFICULTIES IN THE APPLICATION OF THE 1947 POLICY THE CREECH JONES FORMULA. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THE OTHER PLACE WILL SHORTLY CONDUCT SUCH A DEBATE AND IT MAY BE THAT THE INVITATION, COUCHED AS IT WAS IN TERMS OF QUOTE PARLIAMENT UNQUOTE, MAY INCLUDE THIS NOBLE HOUSE AS WELL.
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LORD PAGET OF NORTHAMPTON: MY LORDS, WILL THE NOBLE LORD NOT POINT OUT TO CUR COLONIES THAT ON THE ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF POLITICAL MURDERS, DOES NOT DETER, BUT PROMOTES, VIOLENCE AND ASSASSINATION AND IS A VERY SILLY THING TO GO INTO?
LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS: MY LORDS, NOT FOR THE ONLY TIME AM I VERY GLAD TO AGREE WITH THE GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF MY NOBLE FRIEND.
/BARONESS WOOTTON
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