BR thanks Powell for his letter of 21 November.

"I have looked again through your Presidential Address and I think I was unduly captious in seeming to detect a bias. The only thing that I have found that I think might be objected to is what you say about Kasakstan." The other note BR has is Powell's praise of the congresses at Prague and Warsaw, which BR feels could suggest that no work is being done in the West, though he does not believe this is Powell's intention.

"These are very tiny points and I do not think you need to worry about them. But, apart from your address, the general question remains: how far should one keep silence about acts by one's own side that one thinks undesirable? When I wrote to you I was thinking more of this general question than of your Address."

Typed on the verso of Powell's letter.