CONFIDENTIAL
Our Reference: 2-P.45/54/01 Your Reference:
Treasury Chambers
Great George Street, London, S.W.3 Telephone: Whitehall 1234, ext.
6th October, 1967
66/6/1
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Hong Kong Tunnel
I enclose four copies of a draft brief and background note
I understand that h for Lord Shepherd's proposed visit to Hong Kong.
he leaves on Tuesday. To save time, I am submitting this for your
comments in advance of Treasury internal clearance. It must, in any
event, remain embargoed until agreement is re.ched on security for t!
the guarantee Dickinson's letter of 5th October to Hall refers.
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Carter wil note that the condition at 6(g) is new.I think
the need and justification for it are self-evident but I am sorry we
forgot it. It is really a measure of the exceptional nature of
H.M.G's participation that we had no experience to prevent our
overlooking the obvious. There is a reference to the Governor in
brackets in the first paragraph of the brief that I have been unable
to check.
that
I am sending copies of this note and of the brief to
Carter and to Mackay and Wright here. I hope that comments will
be of the nature that we can clear by telephone on Monday
is not, of course intended to inhibit anyone's freedom of action tat
a hope that the deadlinc may yet be met.
K. W. Cotterill, Esq.
Yours sincerely,
(D. L. Hawkins)