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Gulf of Suez 16 January to Geoffrey Dawson: [The Times' articles on the Hoare crisis] … evidently gave faithful expression to public feeling, and I congratulate you on the freshness and vigour with which they are written (I judge them to have been by your own hand). I'll have no difficulty in agreeing to this line of policy; though actually the Hoare-Laval plan doesn't appear to me to have been a reversal of policy so much as a panic amplification of the Eden offer made before hostilities began, and to have been quite unjustified by the present military position. The original Eden proposal of nearly a year ago (which as you remember we approved) still seems to me to have been perfectly sound and to stand as the proper bases of an agreed peace. […]
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