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YOUR TELNO 62: PQ ON TURNER STUDY.

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1. IN A LETTER TO HURST DATED 2 MARCH 1977, COPIED TO ME, PROFESSOR TURNER STATED THAT THE PAPER SUBMITTED WAS VERY MUCH AN INTERIM DRAFT IN AN ONGOING STUDY, AND A NOTE ARISING FROM WORK IN PROGRESS, AND THAT IT WAS LIABLE TO CHANGE IN ANY FINAL VERSION AND SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN TO REPRESENT FINAL CONCLUSIONS.

2. I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT TURNER HIMSELF WOULD HAVE THE STRONGEST OBJECTION TO PUBLICATION OF WHAT IS, IN EFFECT, A FIRST DRAFT (HE SO DESCRIBED IT TO ME). I CERTAINLY WOULD AS THE AUTHORITY OF HIS EVENTUAL REPORT COULD BE UNDERMINED BY COMPARISONS WITH HIS INTERIM AND PROVISIONAL VIEW''.

3. MOREOVER PUBLICATION WOULD INVITE OPINION IN THE UK TO FORM, AND NO DOUBT A WHOLE STRING OF PQ'S TO BE ASKED, BEFORE THE FINAL REPORT APPEARED. IT WOULD PROVOKE COMMENT AND CONFUSION HERE WHICH WOULD DISCREDIT IN ADVANCE WHAT I HAD HOPED WOULD BE A CONSTRUCTIVE EXERCISE.

4. IF YOU FEEL UNDER PRESSURE ON THIS ISSUE, COULD NOT MATTERS BE EASED BY AGREEING NOW TO PUBLISH THE EVENTUAL REPORT ? (PARA AND 2 OF YOUR TELNO 53 REFERS.) IT OBVIOUSLY MUST BE PUBLISHED, I BELIEVE THIS WOULD BE VALUABLE. MOREOVER SOONER OR LATER PROFESSOR TURNER HIMSELF WILL PUBLISH IN SOME FORM OR OTHER.

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