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doubt about the strength, genuineness and
representative nature of these requests for
Sir David's term to be extended.
5. There is a further point. It has been agreed
that we should offer to Mr. Michael Gass, the
Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong, the post of High
Commissioner for the Western Pacific when the
is present High Commissioner, Sir Robert Foster, takes
hausferred to
up the post of Governor of Fiji at the end of this
year. I believe that at this critical time in
Hong Kong's affairs it would be wrong to remove both
the Governor and the Colonial Secretary within the
space of a few months.
6.
Because of the widespread campaign in the
Colony for an extension of Sir David's term, and
Kong
because traditionally in Hong/we decide on an
will
extension for a Governor about a year before his
commission expires, we must announce very soon
whether or not we are going to extend Sir David's
term. For the reasons given in this minute I very
much hope you will agree that we may offer him an
extension.
17. I am sending a copy of this minute to the
Foreign Secretary.
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