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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
C
Top Secret.
Secret.
DRAFT
Letter
To:-
F H Jackson Esq Vienna
Type 1 +
FROM T W Keeble
Confidential.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
.In Confidence
CC. R. Stratter
14K.
P. Freeman
ODA
Ηκιον
PED
.HONG KONG AND THE UN
Telephone No. Ext.
15PEE973
Department
at
1. Thank you for your letter of 25 January, 102/8. We are constantly discovering new points on which the Chinese may take umbrádge with us as a consequence of our opposed positions on the status of Hong Kong, and we are grateful to you for drawing our attention to the questions of technical assistance to Hong Kong Chinese and their acceptability for UN (IDO) Staff Posts. The fact of the matter on these and similar issues is that we simply do not know which bones will
stick in the Chinese gullet and which they will
swallow gracefully.
In view of the In view of the delicacy and
importance of our relations with China we are perhaps erring on the side of caution; but the Chinese are themselves acting cautiously as they feel their way into the UN system. Our general view therefore is that in matters of practical co-operation at the technical level we need make little change to the opportunities which Hong Kong enjoys; but that we should take a good deal of trouble to avoid flaunting our view of Hong Kong before the Chinese, especially when no important British or Hong Kong interests are at stake.
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