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I think, however, that Jordan put the position
well in talking to the Textile Advisory Board as
reported in your telegram No. 661.
This can be
more fully discussed when your representative
comes here (as suggested in the last paragraph of
your telegram No. 659).
7.
I have written at length to explain that we
have looked as sympathetically as we could upon
your situation and we hope that by the time that
Ministers have come to decisions these may yet
permit the extension and negotiation of restraint
agreements as you would like. We shall do our
best to see that this happens, but we cannot
But the lessons
guarantee that we shall succeed.
remain; for us in Whitehall that if we make
(varying prewing policy statements of principle to visiting officers from
Hong Kong they should be repeated in communications
to you (of course, we accept that we cannot give
instructions to your officers); for the Government
of Hong Kong that H.M.G. must retain some freedom
to direct, and, if necessary, to restrain the
Government of Hong Kong in matters of
international trade and that for this reason
alone there is every need for full consultation
on all steps which you may be contemplating in
this field.
Mr. 22.
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