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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Cutting dated 11 OCT 1970
Career diplomat to
govern Hongkong?
SIR
DAVID TRENCH,
Governor of Hongkong since 1964, iz expected back in England this week on what will almost certainly be his last home leave.
He had hoped to retire this month, but the Labour Government, unable to decide on a suitable suc- cessor, asked him to stay on for a further year.
I believe, however, that the present Government will shortly nominate Mr. Murray MacLehose, Ambassador to Denmark, as his successor,
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But since MacLehose has been in Copenhagen for little more than a year, he may not take up the Hong- kong post immediately.
Blowing hot and cold
Like Trench, who spent
years in many
subsidiary posts in Hongkong, Mac- Lehose served an apprentice- ship there as Political Adviser.
So he would be well aware of the problems that arise from the colony's vulnerable strategic position and boom- ing economy.
He has a wide experience of the East, having been acting Consul-General in Hankow
and Ambassador to Vietnam.
MacLehose would also have become our man in Peking had not a marked drop in temperature of the Cold War prevented him.
From 1965 to 1967, too, he learnt to deal tactfully with as Private the unexpected Secretary to George Brown.
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