97499 St.S.
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Top Secret. Secret. Confidential. Restricted. Unclassified.
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From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
26 April 1967
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I am sending you separately a formal
reply to your letter of 10 April. There are,
however, a few additional points which I
should like to make on a purely private and
confidential basis. The Commonwealth Secretary,
who has recently returned from Hong Kong, and
I feel very strongly on humanitarian grounds
about the long hours worked by women and
children in Hong Kong. (This was something which exercised my mind shortly after my move
to the Dependent Territories Division in
January and before my meeting with you and
Ernest Thornton and James Johnson in February.)
We are pressing, and have every intention of
continuing to press, the Hong Kong Government
to bring about an improvement in working hours.
We have no illusions that this can be done
quickly
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although there are already some, faint
signs of progress. Indeed we are hopeful that
the Government will be able to telescope the
the founti
time-table mentioned in/paragraph
... of my
other letter.
add to the
textile workers
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If it would help you I would have no
objection to you using the information given in
using
the third paragraph of my letter of 7 April at
the annual conference. I appreciate that, so far
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