CONSIDERING WHYDOR WE COULD GET THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR 1975 GWARTED EURIA
IN THE SPRING OF 1974. IF WE HAD TRIED FOR A CHANGE FROM 1 JANUARY IT WAS LIKELY THAT WE WOULD HAVS BEEN DEFEATED. OUR JUDOM ONT PAS THAT IT WAS BETTER TO CONCENTRATE ON THE ANNUAL REVIEW MERI THARA WAS A TOPA
OF ACTION.
6.
LATER HE TOLD SIR Y K KAN THAT, IN OUR EXPERTS' JUDGMENT, THE 137
WE CITANCE OF KOVEMENT IN THE SPRING WAS TO GET THE COMMISGIOM TO IKITOVAR DISCUSSIONS RATHER THAN PROPOSING THEM OURSELVES. BUT TILL
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WE WOULD HAVE TO FORGO PUBLIC CLAIMS OF INDEPENDENT ACTION BY HMG, WOULD THEREFORE HAVE TO RELY ON THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT TO HOLD THE LING IN UK/HONG KONG RELATIONS, BY MAKING THE GREATEST POSSIBLE USE OF ER DAVIES'S STATEMENT. - SIR Y K KAM SAID THAT HE TOOK TU POINT.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
7.
OIR Y K KAN SAID THAT WE WERE GETTING INTO A VERY DIPVICULT
SITUATION,
BEFORE THE TS01 CASE, THERE HAD BEEN THE CAST OF THE DOUBLE LUR D'ORTR LAM PO, WHO WAS LUCKY TO GET OFF THE FIRST TIME, AND WHO AT 1 SECOND TRIAL DID NOT EVEN BOTHER TO DEFEND HIMOCLP FROPVTY AS HZ S.MW
HE WOULD BE REFRIEVED,
8. HOW HIMSSLP WAS BOUND TO ADVISE THAT CAPITAL PUNICIL AỰT BHOOL, RETAINED · AND USED IN HONG KONG. WHATEVER CONTRARY REASONS THREE TO
CAPIND HAVE BEEN LII IRELAND, THEY WERE NOT RELWANT TO HONG ZOHO. PULISMENT HAD NOT BEEN ABOLISHED ANYWHERE ELSE IN TH¦ PAR EAST, 9. IT WOULD BE VERY DAMAGING FOR THE GOVERNOR TO ADOLISH CAPITZ PUP ESTIMENT IN HONG KONG. MOREOVER, IF THERE WAS A REDEIITION OF ACTIONS IN THE TSOI CAST, THIS WOULD BE TOTALLY UNACOUSTABLE, LAST RESORT, IF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT HAD TO BE ABCLIS RD, TTC INITIATAS WOULD HAVE TO COME FROM LONDON.
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10. MR BLAKER SAID THAT HE TOOK SIR Y K KAN'S POINT. VERY DIFFICUIA QUESTION. THE TIMING OF THE PETITION HAD BEEN PARTICULARLY UNFORTUNATE: PARLIAMENTARY OPINION HAD BEEN CONCENTRATED
ON THE ISSUE.
BAS/HONG KONG
11. SIR Y K KAY SAID THAT, SINCE HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO STOCKHOLA, HE MIGHT HAVE TO DISCUSS THE QUESTION OF AN SAS SERV IC 4. YOU HAD TOLD HIM THAT THE ACCEPTABILITY OF A SERVICE HAD BEEN ACRE IN PRINCIPUS
MR BLAKER AND THAT TH¿ OUTSTANDING QUESTION WAS COMPENSATION,
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COMMENTED THAT, WHEN THE PROPOSAL HAD BEEN DISCUSSED WI’H THE SCANDINAVIANS BEFOR? CHRISTMAS, WE HAD MADE A FIRM OFFER OF A SINGIM
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