Day 260 - 11 Jun 96 - Page 53
1 office?
2 A. There were letters that arrived every week, yes.
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4 Q. And, basically, people would help out answering the
5 letters?
6 A. Yes. I do not know about "great deal".
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8 Q. It was not unusual for you to be asked to answer a letter?
9 A. Yes. That was the only time I was asked to.
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11 Q. Right. But it would not be unusual, in terms of people
12 arriving would tend to say, "Why do you not answer this
13 letter", but you had not, yourself, done it before?
14 A. No. Answering the letter only consisted of putting a
15 leaflet into an envelope; there was no written answer.
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17 Q. You did not write a cover note?
18 A. No.
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20 Q. You say I asked you to answer this letter. Is that how
21 I suggested you answer it, or you just made up your own
22 mind how to do it?
23 A. I asked somebody -- whether it was you specifically or
24 not, I cannot remember -- how do you answer it, and you
25 said, or whoever I asked said, "We usually answer these by
26 sending them the information leaflet."
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Just pause a minute. Who chose which leaflet
29 to put in the envelope?
30 A. What I call the information leaflet, your Lordship, was
31 the standard piece of information about the group in
32 general.
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34 Q. The aims and objectives?
35 A. Yes.
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37 MR. MORRIS: In the statement on page 3, your first
38 statement ---
39 A. Yes.
40
41 Q. -- you have, point 2:
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43 "The fair on 27th October will incorporate the
44 anti-McDonald's fair. I gained the impression that
45 David Morris did not seem to place a lot of importance on
46 the McDonald's company itself, because he stated that 'it
47 just happened to be McDonald's that got chosen to represent
48 the multi-nationals'."
49 A. Yes.
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51 Q. Did that seem to be my general attitude to McDonald's?
52 A. I remember you saying that in the beginning of the
53 campaign it just happened to be McDonald's that was chosen.
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55 Q. Do you remember me arguing that it should not be called the
56 anti-McDonald's fair?
57 A. I do recall something of that nature.
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59 Q. That quote from me that would have been from your report,
60 would it not?
