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CODE 18-77

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HMOCS

1.

Confidential

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Reference 2412

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: Basis of Complasation.

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Pets Williams ten Pa

A bir point.

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Thank you for copying to me your excellent letter of 18 febmay very desisable to raise these issues now and to seek to tie the fish down in writing.

2.

One observation :

18/2

we need to be careful about using the political line of justification for compensation (penultimate sentence of you pova 5). If this were deployed publicly non-HMOCS officers might argue

[non- that they were equally deserving of compensation for future disadvantage :

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(a) those with UK citizenship or night of abode ; (b) those who had shown conspicuous Loyalty to

the Crown.

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Confidential.