all

We should

purposes when they are know all that quickly both

want to be certain that we had picked the right man you and we would want to be certain that he was a good

man.~

I can well understand that the announcement of

your intention to reduce primary school fees will have

It will be interesting to know, in Is it likely, do you think,

aroused general interest. due comose, whether that these reductions

will have any effect on enrolment sand what her

in Communist schools;

likely to follow suit? You say you have not got very

or are the sponsors of the latter

far with the ideas you sketched out for the future of

and we should be very glad if you would keep primary school fees/ Here again, we shall be very

Us hosted on

interested to know how these develop. It is an

interesting line of thought that a registration fee

might

should be substituted for a school fee as such.

Presumably you would only require the registration fee

when the pupil was first enrolled? Or do you envisage

an annual registration fee?,

We were naturally very pleased to receive your telegram no. 242 telling us of your intentions (subject

to developments) to release the remaining detainees

during the course of the next few weeks.

51- The release

wowed

of these men will be of considerable help to us here provided these things now behave themselves, $ and, we are most grateful for the manner in which you hope that in Hong Kong it will be seen as one more have striven to accommodate us over this matter.

indication of a

melimon to

1qh February,

brought to

a

normality".

Since

iny

last letter

of

the

The tunnel affair has been

Successful

conclusion, sin?yed-

to the working out of final details. We were

qualms

not without our

about- the terms or which "political risks" were excluded from the

Shareholders' guarantees in the agreed draft-

letter

оз

separate

but

intent

interests of att

must-

seem to be in the

to evebase Banda ther document

Gl-inst clear from what you say Whether the requstratio

fee world be a once- and-for-all

for

payment on envolvent Fra premiary education or

payable con

Franefer from one school to

andher

A

annual payment. There is perhaps

a

danger that The last

of

There

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

hossilicates world be Seized by coilies as

a

subterfuge exabling

The Gort to introduce

free primary educatio

in name only.

Ferardinally used in define

The political curcumplances in which shareholders' Guarantees world be

wawed. But we have always contemplated 12 at- The letter of intent between

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