CONFIDENTIAL
4th July, 1967.
Cur ref: C.R.E. 9143/2 G Your ref: EG.3/1/15
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Hong Kong's Claim to Developing Status
Under cover of your letter of June 21 you sent me a draft raply to Mr. Jeaffreson's letter to you of May 27 and invited comments on the draft.
My only comment relates to the passage after the colon eight lines from the end of the first page to the end of that paragraph. I think your draft would be both clearer and shorter if you were to redraft it rather as follows:-
"It seems to us that 'raw materials and technical skills' are
no more than examples of 'necessary resources' for the promotion
of development of less developed countries; and that it would be
stretching the meaning of the passage unreasonably to argue
from it that countries which do not produce raw materials cannot
be less developed countriea."
D. G. R. Bentliff, Esq.,
Commonwealth Office,
Downing Street,
3.W.1.
(H. Goldsmith)
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Mr. V. 3. Carter
Mr. C. Audland - 0.0.
J
C.O.