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Registry
No. HKK 6/331/1
| SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential,
Restricted.
Unclassified,
PRIVACY MARKING
DRAFT Minute
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Type 1 +
To:-
Mr. Whitehead, Commodities Department, F.C.O.
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Mr. Carey, Industries 1, BOT.
Mr. Kemmis, CRE, BOT.
Mr. S. Stewart, Industries 1,
From
W. S. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
In Confidence BOT.
Mr. Dunnett, CRE1, BOT.
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Shaved have sent
it lotta Board of Trade.
Mr. Toms, CRE2, BOT.
You have seen, as I have, a copy of Mr. S.
Stewart's minute of 24 July, about Non-cotton textiles :
Canada
Hong Kong, addressed to Mr. Kemmis.
4st record
2. I have not seen a copy of the Hong Kong record
of the meeting in Ottawa on 27 June between Mr. Gorse
Howarth and Mr. Jordan. However, I have now seen the
record prepared by Guinness.
cal basis".
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3. It is, of course, true that at a certain stage in
the latest round of Swedish negotiations there took
place between Hong Kong and Sweden what we subsequently
described in a telegram as "discussions on a hypotheti-
However, in the event those hypothetical
discussions, or as they might better have been described,
exploratory discussions, did not, so far as I can see,
prejudice the outcome of the Swedish negotiations.
Moreover I see more than once in Guinness' record rim
statements by both Howarth and Jordan to the effect
that they neither had any negotiating authority. I also
think we ought not to forget that after we had sent,
on Jordan's behalf, our telegram No. 397 to Hong Kong,
repeated to Ottawa, setting out Jordan's objects in
Canada
proposing his visit to Ottawa, we were then advised by
the High Commission in Ottawa that Jordan's visit would
be most useful. One advantage Ottawa saw in Jordan's
/ visit