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No. 443 CONFIDENTIAL
Your telegram No. 313.
MONKEYS
Medical Research Council assure us that monkeys weighing less than six pounds are, repeat are useful for medical purposes. For polio vaccine purposes monkeys weighing from four pounds upwards are useful.
2. Council have no objection in principle to ban. But they are convinced that it will have effect of preventing export of number of monkeys required. They therefore ask that we should do what we can to persuade the Government of India to reconsider it.
3. Please discuss with Indian authorities and ask them to reconsider ban. If they are clearly unwilling to do this you could suggest as an alternative that ban should cover only monkeys weighing less than four repeat four pounds.
4. Council are also concerned about rumour that Indian authorities intend to introduce rule providing that cages for monkeys in transit should be slightly reduced in size and number of monkeys per cage reduced by half. Council say this should put price up, possibly by seventy-five per cent, and involve airlines in space-finding problems, without contributing to comfort of monkeys. Grateful for comment.'
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Sent toHigh Commission of the United Kingdom (New Delhi)
Description:'CYPHER
No. 443 CONFIDENTIAL
Your telegram No. 313.
MONKEYS
Medical Research Council assure us that monkeys weighing less than six pounds are, repeat are useful for medical purposes. For polio vaccine purposes monkeys weighing from four pounds upwards are useful.
2. Council have no objection in principle to ban. But they are convinced that it will have effect of preventing export of number of monkeys required. They therefore ask that we should do what we can to persuade the Government of India to reconsider it.
3. Please discuss with Indian authorities and ask them to reconsider ban. If they are clearly unwilling to do this you could suggest as an alternative that ban should cover only monkeys weighing less than four repeat four pounds.
4. Council are also concerned about rumour that Indian authorities intend to introduce rule providing that cages for monkeys in transit should be slightly reduced in size and number of monkeys per cage reduced by half. Council say this should put price up, possibly by seventy-five per cent, and involve airlines in space-finding problems, without contributing to comfort of monkeys. Grateful for comment.'
