CONFIDENTIAL
HWB.22/13
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Mr..
Hall
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Mr..
X
Mr...
Permt. U.S. of S. X
Parly. U.S. of S.
Mr..
Minister of State
Sir
A. Galsworthy
Secretary of State
Your Reference........
Date...
DRAFT LETTER
Sir David Trench, KCMG,
MC,
Government House,
Victoria,
Hong Kong.
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Arthur Sulswarthy tello
me that when he was
in Hay Kong to at the
end of
the
Last year was able to have a
brief word with you
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discouraging lure.
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Letter just & have Seeius sunk without trace so that in hand to
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hom you.
FURTHER ACTION
Recirc to H.607.
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I greatly regret that you have not been so this appalling delay in sending you a poeeived an earliér reply to your letter
of the 6 September about the possibility of a
visit by Her Majesty The Queen to Hong Kong
whether the Queen in 1968, but firm decisions about the tour shared undertake a to South East Asia in 1968.
have still to be reached. -I am sorry te
say, however, that for reasons of security
we have come to the conclusion that Hong Kong
should not be included.
Briefly, a decision about a visit to
S. E. Asia will depend on the reactions in
Malaysia and Singapore to Mr. Healey's current
visit to discuss the Defence Review.
There are
also doubts about the wisdom of inviting some
of the other countries in the area during the
present period of uncertainty and what the
reactions would be if one was included and
another omitted.
1.
Again if a tour is arranged for 1968 it is
likely to take place in late January or early
February, which would not fit in with the dates
for the opening of the Plover Cove Water Supply
Scheme anyway.
I am sorry about this but in the present
situation in S. E. Asia in the Far East I do
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