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For this
on the Governt had stressed now
important it was to try and do something
for Hong Kong. Mr. Royle endorsed this
point and said that his impression had
been that the Governor was bitter about some
of the things that had been said by
ministers wercontext. Mr. Butler
repeated his concern about the timing of
such an operation. He also wondered now
ministers would reply to Opposition
qestions in the House to the effect that
the Government was prepared to reopen
the negotiations for Hong Kong, but not
ver Britain itself.
4.
would
Mr. Youde said that on 1 January
we started discriminating against Hong
Kong. He repeated Mr. Rippon's two
undertakings, said how seriously Hong
Kong took them and reiterated that the
Prime Minister would be faced with very
embarrassing questions on Hong Kong if
we did not do something about them. ́ ́
Mr. Robinson said that it was not the
intention his side of the Office to
ell
a
sede Hong Kong down the river. There were
wider considerations.
If we did something
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