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that'',V YOU make the point (September 30. page 468) titieljnee a country is known to have possessed Iq ths.l. weapons it will always possess such weapons Ileck,'"ilen it may make that it has disposed of its thit i'aY, would never be believed. I am sure that Itgilibs true, but I don't see that it is necessarily an °lie cut against unilateralism; it might indeed be fif nomb, but retain the Bomb's deterrent force ithbit but economise on the Defthee"nce Budget. I 't)11 and ceased manufacture; such a declaration, tower" there be); remain (by reputation) a nuclear rY str that the argument isn't on igh moral ePinion of its rivals, irrespective of any (mg reason for Britain's going unilateralist.

plane usual among unilateralists, but its very cyni- cism makes it particularly appropriate as a founda- tion for British foreign policy.—Yours faithfully,