a direct approach from yourself to Mr. Heath.
However apart from the above, I feel
that we should take up with the Governor
the fact that despite your having told everyone
likely to be concerned with the visit that
you would like an opportunity of meeting
Mr. Heath no such opportunity was afforded you. For this purpose it would help us to know at what levels you made your wishes
known in Hong Kong Government circles and
what response you were given to your approaches.
You have raised some very important
questions about the status of your office
in Hong Kong and I shall need to give more
thought to them before I attempt anything like a substantive answer. But am I right
that you are not so much registering
formal complaint about the situation-unsatisfac-
tory though it certainly is-as \letting
a
off steam in the hope that you and together,
with the co-operation of the Hong Kong Government
of course can do something about it.
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