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newspapers in an attempt to advise a fuller context of this matter. Let there be no doubt.
I have for some years felt that the Conservative Party, of which you are an agent, has had something of an interest in suppressing the truth of Hongkong administrative corruption. This was particularly brought home to me in 1967/68 when your colleague Mr Patrick Jenkin, now First Secretary to the Treasury, then my constituency MP, sought from me, were he to continue to represent me to some degree in the matter of Hongkong Government corruption and maladministration, corroborative evidence of specific allegations from credible sources and declined to receive this when it was offered. I thought this odd, having in mind Magna Carta, the Constitution and the fact that Mr Jenkin was in Opposition at the time. However, perhaps I am not a sophisticated member of society and have not understood all that my betters have not done for me and others and would have us believe. Nevertheless, the fact that Baring Brothers merchant bankers drop large sums of money upon the table of the Conservative Party - in political contributions that is has given me food for thought.
However, as with the Socialists
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for on Hongkong graft and injustice there is little to choose between you I am sure that among your premier concerns is the purely patriotic one for the economy of the United Kingdom, its dependence on the Hongkong Reserves, and your Party's political dependence upon this dependence.
I feel it right to advise you, however, that the reserves of truth are by some of us considered to be of paramount importance. These reserves, before the right court, will in due course be called upon.
In view of the importance of these matters to our national reputation I am making these immediate communications, their existence and content, public, in the hope that our news media will apply interest to them. I declare this, which is an advance on the shabby tactics of the person revealing the existence and content of Mrs Elliott's confidential letter.
Yours sincerely
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ALAN ELLIS