Lord Walston is Under-Secretary of State.

Walston outlines the British government's case for banning the scheduled Bolshoi benefit performance for the BRPF. Walston states that BR's citing of Article 1 of the Anglo-Soviet Cultural Agreement is "irrelevant to the question at issue".

He goes on to mention that it is "inappropriate" for Soviet artists to be allowed in the country when "... they appear in support of any movement or organization which has a political character or which is involved in controversy over domestic issues."