certain informal discussions took place involving a full and frank exchange of views, out of which there arose a series of proposals which proved to indicate certain promising lines of inquiry, which, when pursued, led to the realization that alternative courses of action might, in fact, in certain circumstances, be susceptible of discreet modification, leading to a reappraisal of the areas of difference and pointing the way to encouraging possibilities of compromise and cooperation which, if bilaterally implemented with appropriate give and take on both sides, might, if the climate were right, have a possibility, at the end of the day, of leading, rightly or wrongly, to a mutually satisfactory resolution.