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Mr. Wilford
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shald Men-end. I had a brief talk this morning with Mr. MacLehose about
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his plans for preparing himself for Hong Kong after he has left
Copenhagen.
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He told me that he had cleared with the Chief Clerk and
Mr. Day that there would be no difficulty about providing him with
money for travelling for this purpose outside the United Kingdom.
3. I told him that I thought he should allow about a month for
study of any files in the Department here and for the necessary
visits and contacts in London.
4. On this basis his provisional view was that he should allow
a further six weeks to two months for visits overseas. He would
treat this as a sort of "sabbatical". The object would be to see
how other people dealt with problems with which he might come in
contact in Hong Kong, but he accepted that methods employed elsewhere
were not necessarily appropriate in Hong Kong. He thought that
his sabbatical visits could usefully be made to Singapore, the
United States and Japan as well as to this country.
5.
Sir David Trench had provided him with a provisional list
of fields of government activity which he might usefully study,and
he and I in discussion made a few additions to this. He will
consider the list further. He already has contacts in certain
fields; on others he would need our help in arranging contacts.
As his thinking develops he will write to me about this.
6.
We agreed that the Hong Kong Government should not be
consulted about his programme but that at the appropriate time they
should be told what he has in hand.
28 October, 1970.
STAFF IN CONFIDENCE
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(L. Monson)