It has not been possible to send you any authoritative view. The
High Commissioner [1] has been with Ministers continuously and
will shortly be advising you.

In reply to your telegram No. 51 [2] and in case the position was
not clear from our telephone conversation, I was not advised of
arrival of your telegrams until nearly seven a.m. Tuesday [3]
owing to delay in their being delivered at this office. This delay
was due to circumstances over which we had absolutely no control
and I have brought it to the notice of the authorities, so that
there will be no recurrence. I endeavoured at once to contact the
Foreign Office, but could get no information and then came as soon
as possible to this office where I learned that your telephone
call was coming through. When I left here at eight p.m. Monday
evening after completing the round at the Foreign Office and
elsewhere, there was no hint of this development. Press news came
through in the middle of the night.

STIRLING