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IMPORTS OF COTTON TEXTILES FROM HONG KONG
1. Mr Royle suggested to me this morning that now was the
time for a letter from the Secretary of State to Mr John Davies
(Mr Peter Blaker and a number of other Members of Parliament
discussed the position with Mr John Davies yesterday).
Mr Royle also suggested that a telegram might be sent in
reply to Hong Kong telegram No 85 reassuring the Governor that
we were doing everything possible to settle this issue.
2. The attached draft letter has been prepared on the
assumption that it will issue on Monday 31 January and that
Mr Royle will be seeing Sir John Eden on Tuesday 1 February.
A draft telegram is also attached.
Main
E O Laird
Hong Kong Department
28 January 1972
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