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5.
(i)
(ii)
that he sees no prospect whatever of securing
agreement in Hong Kong to a settlement of this
issue on the basis of the terms that Ministers
have instructed him to put to his Government.
that in his view the only way in which HMG will secure
those terms will be by imposing them upon the
Colony by use of the reserved powers under the
Hong Kong Constitution.
Despite the Governor's views on this matter it would be
out of the question for the Secretary of State to report back
to the Defence and Oversea Policy Committee until action on
their previous decision had been carried out.
And it is not
at all clear from the Governor's telegrams that this has been
done.
6. In the circumstances I see no alternative to sending a
further telegram to the Governor along the lines of the
Sin L. Monson attached draft (which you saw earlier in a slightly different
form). The draft has been agreed at the official level with
the Treasury, the Ministry of Defence and the Department of the
Environment.
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Hong Kong Department
16 August 1971
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