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In the penultimate sentence, for "sign" substitute
"indication" and omit the words "to the Chinese".
E Paragraph 9 (Redraft)
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The Americans would like us to stay on in Hong Kong
for as long as possible because of Hong Kong's value for
intelligence purposes and its political value as a Free World
enclave on the mainland of China. For domestic as well as
international reasons, however, they would be very unlikely
to be willing to give a public nuclear guarantee for Hong
Kong nor for our own reasons would we wish them to do so.
There might however be advantage
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also be considered.
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