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on which comment is req relate HK thram to Japan.
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31st October, 1973.
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Mr Redrary/GIPD Mi Marshall M. Lamb/PPD FEDT Bring!s
I have just come back from an all too hurried journey as Leader of a Mission from the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry to Japan and Hong Kong. I doubt whether I have anything much to say about it that will be new to you, particularly as you have been to the same places so recently. But since I was most kindly received by HMRR in Tokyo and Hong Kong and since some contribution will presumably have been made from public funds to the cost of my journey, my déformation professionnelle constrains me to make some attempt at a report on the trip à toutes fins utiles ! I am sending a copy of this letter to Anthony Part, in the hope that what follows may be of some use to those concerned in the DTI as well as in the FCO. Much of it perhaps concerns the DTI more than the FCO. I hope that I will not be thought totally off-side if I make some comments on things which are really none of my business nowadays.
2. I should perhaps explain that when this Mission was originally planned upwards of a year ago, the idea behind it was that Export Managers and salesmen trying to sell in Japan and the Far East generally often have to report to Boards whose members have no personal experience of these markets. It was therefore suggested that it would be a good thing to organise a Mission at a fairly Da high level of Directors of major companies, who would not be
going primarily to sell, but more to get a feel of the problems, mainly by discussion with the posts, leading businessmen British and local, and so on. Originally Lord Erroll of Hale was to lead the Mission, supported as Deputy Leader by Jeffrey Hamm, Vice President and immediate past Chairman of the London Chamber and Chairman of Dodwell & Co., with whom he has spent a lifetime in business from Ceylon to Japan. Erroll fell out when he became Chairman of Bowaters and I was asked to take on the leadership of the Mission. I was of course delighted to do so and I am very grateful to the London Chamber for giving me this first opportunity to go to Japan and Hong Kong.
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