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Mr S. M. Bruce, High Commissioner in London, to Mr R. G. Menzies, Prime Minister

Cablegram 362 LONDON, 29 May 1940, 7.37 p.m.

FOR THE PRIME MINISTER PERSONAL HIMSELF MOST SECRET

Your telegram 242 [1] admirable and most useful. Evidence on which [were based] [2] reassuring statements as to improvement in French position in [interim reply] [3] in my view not very convincing.

BRUCE

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1 Document 294.

2 Editorial insertion.

3 Inserted from Bruce’s file copy on AA: M100, May 1940. The copy circulated in Canberra was incorrectly deciphered and read ‘in the interior’.

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