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I have been considering the suggestion in your minute to me

of 28th April that I should fit in a couple of days in Hong Kong

after travelling to Tokyo on BOAC's Trans-Siberian inaugural early

in June.

2. I fully agree with you that it is important that we should

demonstrate our interest in and concern with the problems of Hong

Kong, and other things being equal I would certainly be willing

to take this opportunity of making a visit there. Unfortunately,

however, I shall be very pressed for time on this occasion.

Commitments in the House will necessitate my being back in London

on the morning of June 9th at the latest and given that I shall be

spending some time both in Tokyo and in Osaka, I cannot see that a

visit to Hong Kong could practically be fitted into my programme.

3. I shall of course bear your suggestion in mind in planning

my future programme, and it may well be that I shall be able to

visit Hong Kong a little later in the year perhaps with one or

two other countries which I did not include in my Far East tour in

January.

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY No.51 11 MAY 1970

114 KK 22/2

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