The British Council of Churches meeting in Aberdeen at the moment of your visit to Rhodesia ardently supports you in your efforts towards reconciliation and a new constitutional settlement. We hope your discussions may be continued and enlarged in harmony with Her Majesty's Government's five principles and without undue delay in applying them. If notwithstanding all efforts there should come a breakdown and if you and your Government should judge it necessary to use force to sustain our country's obligations I am sure a great body of Christian opinion would support you.