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CONFIDENTIAL
Hong Kong Dept
Dept.
CC-Mr Dodds, Commodities
4/2
On Clawlay
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London S.W.1
;
1 February, 1972
पार
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY NO. 51
-741972
нккорея
Anthony Royle has told me about our difficulties
with Hong Kong over cotton textiles about which I gather you
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had a talk with a delegation of Members on 27 January.
I understand that he is discussing the problem with
John Eden.
I shall be leaving at the end of the week for my trip to the Far East and I shall be in Hong Kong from 13-15 February. My object in visiting Hong Kong is to reassure the people there of our continuing interest in their welfare to bring home to them that we do recognise that our relations with the Colony are special. I shall be making a specch on these liner. My visit is particularly important as the announcement of textile quotas certainly seems to have damaged Hong Kong's faith in Britain and the U.K. government. I very much hope therefore that you will find it possible to agree that we should make a special effort to meet Hong Kong on this issue.
Thet. Hon. John Davies, MBE., MP.
(ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME)