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se have of coupee no record of the remarks attributed to Mr Herth on tiis occasion. It would belp us to realy to the unofficial members If you could confim bheir accuracy or corect thom:
and if you could let ug know the context and circumstancen in which they were made. Our own impression lo tant if Mr H
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seth did inake a st: Lement on the linoc attributed to him by the morficial member, he did not so much have In mind britain's surnino frca Hong Kong and the cost of muintaining tho arrison thero (which is there for the defence of tus Colony and to assist in the addubenance of internal recurity) os Britain's very much wider 1itobeste elatiore in the Far Zact and her role in maintaining a military prevence in the dred generally.
I am sending a copy of taie letter to Peter Moon.
The Hon. Douglas Hurd,
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10 Towning Street.
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