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will certainly be a need for such contact in due course and the advantage of floating it with the Chinese at the time we tell them of our plans for the garrison is that it might help sweeten what will probably be a pretty unpalatable pill for them to swallow. Again we and the FCO support this idea.
4. I should be grateful to know that the Secretary of State is content for us to proceed in the way described above.
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