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To:-
E.L. Sykes, Esq., C.M.G.,
Secretary to the Parlia mentary
Church House,
Commissioner,
Great Smith Street,
S.W.1.
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From
S
A.W. Gaminara
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Hong Kong
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30.121
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Thank you for your letter of 18 December and for
the copy of the letter addressed to Sir. Edmund Compton
by the Hong Kong branch of "Justice".
I am enclosing photostat copies of two press
cuttings from Hong Kong newspapers which contain
articles to either of which Justice may have been
referring.
you
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to Wilford Shorty
understand that I believe that Marsh spoke to your secretary
before cavisimes and that the confirmed that we
immediately before Christmas and told her that we saw saw no djection
to a reply being sent to The slici
no objection to a reply being sent to Justice on the
tlines that
you marccted to bein
lines that you had theviously indicated to me.
We
should be grateful if we could be sent a copy of that
reply in order to complete our records.
It appears that this whole affair, which is most
unfortunate, was almost certainly the result of a mis-
understanding. I say this because Carter, who saw
before
Sir David off at London airport on the latters return
to Hong Kong on 12 December, recalls that the Governor
was quite explicit in telling him, on the way to the
airport, that the Parliamentary Commissioner had agreed
to his views being quoted by the Governor on the latter's
arrival back in Hong Kong.
You did tell me that you were not asking us to
persue the subject any further and we do not propose to
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