E.O. Laird, Esq,
Hong Kong Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
London, S.W.1.
Dear Laird
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I am replying to your letter No HK K 10/9 of 15th December 1970 about the Hong Kong visit of Mr Fred Lee.
I find it impossible to speak with accuracy of Mr Lee's commitment at the meeting with Ex Co and Leg Co members. But knowing Mr Lee and recalling the discussions we had leading up to that meeting I am sure he intended, as Arthur Galsworthy says, to make a warm but non-committal statement of willingness to see what could be done in London.
He knew very well that he was tied hand and foot by Treasury restraints and if he had made any commitment contrary to this I should certainly have remembered this as it would have been a major reversal and scrupulously documented.
RKIV IN ANTRY No. 81
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Yours sincerely
Alie Стили вши
A.P. CUMMING-BRUCE
Civil Adviser to 60C
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