FROM: LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR EDWIN BRAMALL KCB OBE MC
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21 JAN 1974
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Peter Blaker Esq MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Foreign & Commonwealth Office Downing Street
LONDON SW1A 2HB
14 January 1974
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Dear Muinter
Thank you very much indeed for your kind letter which I very much appreciated. It was very good of you to write.
Since writing, of course, you have been given this new appointment in the Foreign Office, with, I believe, special responsibilities for Hong Kong. May I congratulate you on this and also say, very sincerely, that this appointment has given great pleasure to everyone out here. They feel you really do understand some of their problems.
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Thank you for your offer to have a talk sometime. well be relevant in your new job as in your old, and I look forward very much to having the opportunity to meet you either out here or sometime in London.
The big problem that faces us, of course, is concluding a satisfactory successor Agreement starting in early '76. I find a fund of goodwill out here and I am sure that the Hong Kong Government will be reasonably generous provided we do not overplay our hand, but because of inflation the bill is bound to look a good deal bigger than it did last time. I am very optimistic but the unofficials at EXCO go through our sums with a fine tooth comb, as you know well!
Thank you again very much for writing.
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