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For Governor.
Your telegram No. 809.
Confrontation in Hong Kong.
been
An inter-departmental committee is being set
up to consider questions such as those which you
have raised. At present we intend to confine
membership to a few departments (Sedgwick of
course will also be a member), bringing in other
departments ad hoc as required.
2.
Our preliminary thoughts on your other
suggestions are as follows:-
we'll
(a) We are considering sending circular
guidance to Commonwealth and foreign pos ts;
(b) we agree that occasional visits by large
American naval vessels may help to keep the
Chinese guessing about American intentions
in relation to Hong Kong. We think that some
of