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A 0000 oosn 1098 :* .**r-*-' .v-Vv*.#r?r*:^''.: : . - > TO The Washington Chemical Co. Ltd. Washington tw t YOUR W3P, out m. jaec/ER Dear Mr* Collins, J. L# Collins, Eso., Turner & Newall Limited, Manchester; / ___________ __________________ 19th Novem^r ^T* Ltu fcS 'In: > ,Draft Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Regulations ^V*' f Thank you for sending me an additional T.&N.LtcI Board ** Paper in connection with Item 14(c), and since/t:eading the tP* . earlier entriesvm* 4.*wi. <.uv i v- vs inah tuhaey Boardu iFvos ldve; .r,, and copy'saU i <-l W wpxc J of theC/ J. UJIU - sff{{ correspondence you have exchanged with Mr. ^aderson, including \ (~ ` .'t `t the 19 4*T5^ uamnd* 1950 copy letters from youv> w VV? 1 w J. , VS I>| JW14 WtOog/tthh Ve* nMXUini.^isVtIrJyT WoJ f 3.' / iP .labour and National Service, I am not altogether happy about {**- l> / this< '.I. U. J ~ ear"IlJier background,1 1_________. . J an. Jd I haveT <1___________ accordingly_______JLJI 1 -- _ca.usedJ ^to_ Tbe prepared a Schedule (along similar line4 to the Schedule . attached to Mr. Alderson's letter to Vou of 15th November 1957) itemizing the pre-1950 cases of Asbarftosis culled from N.I.Co's records* As I see from your lette^r of 13th November to Mr. Alderson that you requir'e four copies in all of Mr. Alderson's Schedule, I accordingly enclose four copies of this pre-1950 Schedule. / / As far as I recollect, I^was not consulted in 1950 about the correspondence-then, althbugh at Washington at the time without, of course, any locus standi in regard to this aspect of N.I.Co's affairs at the Material time - and my initials are not on the 1950 correspondence. I therefore claim no knowledge as to the background either of the information supplied or the discussions entered into/at that time, but since recently reading the copies of the 1945 and 1950 betters which you have kindly supplied me - ana'in view of the T.& N.Ltd Board Report which you have prepare4 - I began to wonder whether some of the facts as stated were tfhen actually the* case, and whether some of the conclusions tl/en submitted were, in the light of the then / /j0& known facts or havi regard to subsequent developments, in fact /'0 < valid. The attached1'Schedule may therefore throw some further light on the situation and you may wish to reconsider the matter vis-a-vis /the T.& N.Ltd Board Paper accordingly. It . does not, of coqrs, directly affect the tactics to be decided upon following he recent revival of the matter by the Ministry, but it is\proably correct to say that the statement at the end of your supplementary Board Paper, viz, the position is more difficult than you had hoped would be the case, is undoubtedly so. .... contd \ . ,1; S?&*>. fi #W' \ i J. L. Collins, Esq, -2- 19th November 1957 I was only in a position to raise these considerations with you at this' particular Juncture as I have, of course, only been able to read over the last day or two the T.& N.Ltd Board Paper. Yours faithfully, t ; c Ends. o t .