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1O DOWNING STREET From the Private Secretary U.II s\ """^ ^° v e mb e r 1978 Uganda and Tanzania Thank you for your letter of 9 November in which you conveyed the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary's proposals for a UK response to President Nyerere's request for the supply of military equipment. The Prime Minister has seen your letter and has commented: "If this is to be supplied free, what are we to get in return - politically or in some other way? We must not be bullied by them". I should be grateful for advice on the advantage, politically or otherwise, which we could expect to win from supplying the Tanzanians with the items detailed in your letter free of charge. The Prime Minister will wish to consider this advice, and any other comments which his colleagues may have, before authorising instructions to be sent to our High Commissioner in Dar-es-Salaam in the terms proposed. I am sending copies of this letter to Kingsley Jones (HM Treasury), Roger Facer (Ministry of Defence) and Martin Vile (Cabinet Office). y, J. S. Wall, Esq., Foreign and Commonwealth Office. % 4 i h i