Cablegram 7 LISBON, 21 September 1939, 5.02 p.m.
Your telegram unnumbered of 21st September. [1]
It has so far proved impossible. Minister for the Colonies [2] has not now [sic] returned and I made renewed representations on 13th instant and will press them again.
SELBY
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1 Document 238.
2 Dr P.J.V. Machado.
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[AA:A981, TIMOR (PORTUGUESE) 22, iv]