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and my old place will always be ready for me when I return.
Finally you must remember that I would be going to live in comfort
in one of the healthiest places in the world. As the Attorney-
General said, it is simply as if I was sent out on a legal mission,
like the Venezuela Arbitration. Also it would be an advertisement
for me for the rest of my life.

These are the arguments for it. Everyone - Strachey, the A-G. etc -
advise me to take it, & call me names for hesitating. On the
other hand there are your feelings. I am not going, if it is
to hurt you deeply. It would only be a temporary absence, I
should probably be back once a year, & of course the post annihilates