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provisionally arranged to meet again on 2 February in case there were any further ideas for satisfying the different requirements in a single acceptable programme to discuss and in case The French and German representatives were by then authorised to discuss possible arrangements for a limited use of the Grenoble reactor by British scientists.
Since then, despite earnest consideration with AEA and other bodies concerned in the UK, the SRC has so far been unable to develop any praticable scheme which likely to meet both French and German wishes and the British needs. On the other hand, our annual revision of the whole financial programme is not yet far enough advanced to enable us to say whether any possible adjustement of the rate of SRC capital contributions towards the ILL could offer a way of resolving the difficulties. We should, therefore, on 2 february be unable to add anything substancial to what we said in Paris last month.
We would still welcome the meeting if you were able to discuss possible financial arrangements on the lines of those originally suggested by the SRC for limited use of the Grenoble reactor by British scientists or if you had succeeded in developing any new ideas. However, if the Franco-German partners in the ILL are, like SRC, unable to add to the views expressed at the december meeting, I suggest it would be best to postpone the proposed meeting for a few weeks. I would however suggest that if we do postpone the meeting we should aim for another date in April or May.
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