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.In Confidence
To:-
Type 1 +
From
The Rt Hon R Wood MP
Minister of Overseas Development
Eland House
Stag Place
London S W 1
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Thank you for your letter of 4 January about
Hong Kong.
2. I am very sorry that you find great difficulties
From my point of view, and for the
in our proposal.
reasons which I shall explain, it is particularly
important that we should make this gesture and I
should be most grateful if you could reconsider the
matter.
3.
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I think I should stress immediately that in
telling me about the Japanese offer, P Y Tang, the
Chairman of the Polytechnic Planning Committee, who is
also, of course, a Member of the Executive Council,
spoke in terms which made it clear that he was not aski
us for parallel help because of our relationship with
Hong Kong but telling us of the offer in case, in our
trade interests, we would like to do something similar.
He thought we might like to see at least some of the
trainees brought up with a bias towards Briti sh
machinery.
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4. You mentioned in your letter that one of your
main objections related to trade considerations,
The
DTI are of course responsible for straight-forward
trade promotion, eg, exhibitions and trade missions,
but it seems to me that where, as in this case,
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