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display centre.
This decision was taken before the Chancellor's
announcement of 17 December of a 20% cut for such allocations.
It is now likely to be irreversible.
6.
I submit a draft letter to Sir P Reilly which should wind
GIPD, FED, POD and Accommodation Department
up the correspondence.
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1. At a risk of sounding a heretical note at this late
stage I question the wisdom of a further letter to Sir P Reilly.
He knows our problem on information from the PUS's first letter
and we cannot add anything useful so that the draft to him
submitted is wholly apologetic.
acknowledgement of the PUS's.
2.
His letter of 4 December is an
The only other point in the draft is the question of the
Trade Commission offices. The point here is that Sir Patrick
Reilly thinks that we need a projection of Britain window
placed on the ground floor and that this would justify moving
our offices which are in fact excellent in every way. Since
again the answer which is going to have to be given for strictly
financial reasons is negative, I think we could also dispense
with an answer on this point.
3. If however the PUS feels a further letter must go to Sir
P Reilly the present draft is as good as any.
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LETTER
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Bir P Reilly GCMG OBE
9-13 King William Street LONDON EC4P 4HS
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FROM
Sir T Brimelow
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
Thank you for your further letter of 4 December.
On the question of the projection of Britain in
Hong Kong, you mentioned in your original letter having
met Derek Brinson in Hong Kong. He has come back
satisfied that the Trade Commissioner and his staff are
doing a good job in the general information field. The
information officer there has a good working relation-
ship with the Hong Kong Government Information
Service. Doubtless it would be possible to mount a
bigger exercise with greater resources. But the fact
remains that what determines the attitude of the Hong
Kong public to the UK is not our general image, but a
series of bilateral issues where we appear to be in
conflict with Hong Kong. It is unfortunately true
that the British case on these issues is seldom heard
in Hong Kong. But, as I said in my last letter, we
must look to the Governor rather than to the Trade
Commission to put this right. I discussed this with
Murray MacLehose myself when I was in Hong Kong, and
we have been in touch with him since. But I fear it
is a long haul.
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