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SENT TO: Amconsul GENEVA TEDUL PRIORITY

I have your Dulte 157. I share the views there expressed, emphasizing however your remark that we should seek to avoid formal identification with open partition or the creation of two states where one now exists.

Referring to your SECTO 389 I feel that Heath has somewhat overstated the case, perhaps deliberately for morale reasons. Our military authorities do in fact take a rather gloomy view of military situation and the QTE explorations UNQTE designed to strengthen military and political position are pretty much at a standstill not by our election but because the French themselves have never yet really decided on QTE internationalized UNQTE on the conditions which long ago we laid down at Paris. Therefore Dupont's advice to us to make up our mind QTE quickly UNQTE is rather irrelevant. We made up our mind sometime ago with the qualification however that we reserve the right to review the situation if by the time the

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