Sections A-D and F. No changes have been
shown to other departments with the sole exception
of the changes in paragraphs 17-19 (including the
pencilled additions to paragraph 19 and to the
corresponding Conclusion (a)) which are being
considered by the Ministry of Defence, who have
yet to agree them.
5. I feel some uncertainty about how to
proceed. It is the Foreign and Commonwealth
Secretary's wish that the paper should be
submitted to the Hong Kong Ministerial Committee
before being taken in DOPC and that, I under-
The
stand, has always been our intention.
But I
look to you for advice on the need first to
clear the paper at official level and the way
in which this should be done.
6. In their decision of 25 May, 1967
(OPD (67) 20th Meeting), DOPC "invited the
Commonwealth Secretary, in consultation with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Defence
Secretary, the President of the Board of Trade
and the Minister of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs, to arrange for officials
to consider our policy in respect of Hong Kong
in the long term, on the lines indicated in
discussion." The Departments named were those
subsequently represented on the Hong Kong
Ministerial Committee. At a meeting of the
Defence Review Working Party on 2 June, 1967
the Chairman stated (OPDO(DR)(67) 24th Meeting)
"It has been suggested that a Committee
might be formed under Cabinet Office
chairmanship to prepare a report on these
questions, but in view of the possibility
/that the
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