WHITEHALL 5422

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Copy for Mr. Carter

CABINET OFFICE

Copy No

LONDON, S.W.I

17th August 1967

67/E

I enclose a note which the Treasury have

prepared, in consultation with the Bank of England and

the Board of Trade, on immediate action necessary on

financial and economic matters in the context of a

forced withdrawal from Hong Kong. The note was circu-

lated with Mackay's letter to Rogers of 15th August (copied to Hall at the Commonwealth Office, Morris at the Board of Trade and to Haslam at the Bank of England).

Its handling will be discussed at the Defence Review Working Party meeting arranged for 22nd August.

Copies go to Daniel (DEA) and Campbell (MOD), and (without enclosure) to Mackay, Morris and Carter (Commonwealth Office).

E. Bolland, Esq., Foreign Office, S.W.1.

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(R.L.L. FACER)

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