Cypher
CONFIDENTIAL
INWARD TELEGRAM
TO THE COMMONWEALTH OFFICE (The Secretary of State)
FROM HONG KONG (Sir D. Trench)
D. 12 June, 1967.
R. 12
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IMMEDIATE
CONFIDENTIAL
No. 822
229A
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Original a HWA 1/13
Your telegram No. 1167.
Leave.
Thank you for your consideration of my difficulties.
After the comparative failure of the communist attempt at strike action over the week-end, I believe we may now expect a bit of a lull. With a little preparation of public opinion, I consider I could hope to leave here on 25 June, arrive London on 26 June and be ready for consultations between then and 1 July when I would like to take up the hotel reservations in Ireland I already have. My family would accompany me instead of leaving on 16 June, which in any case I find raises too many domestic difficulties.
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I recommend these arrangements be considered firm, unless actual disorders are widespread or actively threatened. With the preparation suggested, I believe confidence would not be too much impaired and one does not want to allow the communists to be able to claim a victory in having delayed my leave indefinitely.
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Your paragraph 4. I hope it can be accepted that if I am again prevented from leaving, I cannot then rely on going at a few days notice as opportunity offers too many arrangements have to be made here, for travel, and for the accommodation etc. of my family in England. All this takes time, and requires dates to be set ahead and adhered to.
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Please also see my immediately following secret telegram.
Grateful for your decision on paragraph 3, preferably by Flash telegram.
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