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Mr. Carter,
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Personal for Elliott, Political Adviser, from
Murray.
Peking telegram No. 243 of 26 March7:
Sino-British Relations.
We had a meeting at departmental level with
Commonwealth Office this morning to examine the
draft.
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Leaving aside the possibility with that the second sentence Without prejudice to the question of the of para. 3 and the furt sentence of para 7. take as too for down desirability of becoming involved in discussions
the stiffery slope of negotiation
with the Chinese about Hong Kong, we felt that if
we are to assume that the approach referred to in
your telegram 331 is genuine, we must take account
of the remarks in paragraph 5 of that telegram
urant that the Chinese do not wish to institute formal
did talks in either Peking or London because they de
not wish to appear to be seeking a solution.
We
also foresaw that you would have difficulties on
various points, of detail.
3. It seemed to us that the following amendments
might merit consideration:
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