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Registry
No. HKK 6/531/1
Top Secret. Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
Staff in Confidence.
DRAFT letter
To:-
(2
Miss J. E. Elliott (2
CRE Division 1,
Board of Trade, 1 Victoria Street, London, S.W. 1.
Type 1 +
From
(108
H. H. Stewart
Telephone No. & Ext.
Jai
he
copy to Howard Collings in the Commodities Depart- ment of the Ministry
Department Hong Kong
I am venturing to take the lead again
over the progress of Hong Kong/Sweden tex-
tile negotiations, this time over Hong Kong
telegram No. 319, which has just arrived. I
would not do so if I did not know how pre-
occupied you are at this time with other
matters no doubt of wider significance.
The same is probably true of Howard Collins
in the Commodities Department of the
Ministry to whom I am copying this letter.
9
It seems to me that this telegram reads
satisfactorily in the light of our own tele-
grams Nos. 252 and 253 (on which we agreed
last week) until the end of paragraph ↳
and for the matter of that in paragraph 8
but I expect that you will be looking very
closely at the paragraphs in between.
In the first place. it is understandable
that Hong Kong should be reluctant to allow
a state of continued suspension of export
authorisations in view of the undesirable
effects on her trade. It is also understand-
able that the Hong Kong Ministry of Commerce
and Industry (which as it happens is passing
through a period of staff shortage) should
wish to avoid further consultations in
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