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have introduced. A great deal of good has been done by the careful and informative answers to Parliamentary questions and by the frequent meetings with Members to improve their understanding of the Colony's progress: but with the risk of continuing sniping in Parliament, in the NEC and in the TUV, he feels there is a need to demonstrate that adequate attention is being paid to the points made above. He has asked for an interim reply to be sent to the EC on these matters in as positive terms as possible and for us to obtain your views so that a more substantive reply can be sent in due course.
9. There is much food for thought hore but we have a couple of months in hand for you to pull all thin over and send us your views. He would like us to aim at n further meeting with the NEC to discuss these matters. however, perhaps about mid-October. Meanwhile he in reminding the NEC of your offer to meet members of the labour Party to brief them on ilong Kong affairs generally.
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Duncan Watson