Minutes I think we have a point to make to the Chiefs of Staff here, since they should be aware that bombing of tribes men, wherever it takes place, is some thing which arouses international emotion and in particular the bombing of Arab tribesmen arouses considerable emotion in the Arab world which is not similarly aroused by ground operations. It is clearly preferable in connexion with our relations with the Arab world that this particular handle for propaganda should not be given to the Arab countries. I think they would be pretty widely supported by Afro-Asian and Soviet bloc countries if they were to allege, at the U.N. for instance, that the bombing and rocketting of dissidents was inhuman in that it was likely to kill women and children indiscrimina nly. . . NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN (R.A.Deaumont) ة 37775 (1372) A.O.St.
