10 DOWNING STREET

THE PRIME MINISTER

My dear Minister,

8 June, 1979.

I am deeply grateful for all that you did to make my visit

-to France last Tuesday so enjoyable. I greatly enjoyed our

discussion over lunch at the Elysee and much appreciated your

kindness in accompanying me on the visit to Tricastin which

your Government had been good enough to arrange for me.

I was deeply impressed by all that I saw at Tricastin, not

only by the obviously superb quality of the engineering in

the gaseous diffusion plant and in the nuclear reactors, but

also by the vision and courage to which the whole enterprise

.testified. France is indeed fortunate to have taken such a great

stride towards a solution of the immense problems which will con-

front all of us in Europe during the coming decade.

I should like to send you this photograph as a memento of

a most enjoyable and absorbing afternoon.

With every best wish,

Yours sincerely,

(SGD) MT

Son Excellence Monsieur Alain Peyrefitte