香港總督府
CONFIDENTIAL & PERSONAL
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONG KONG
18th August 1975
Des Duncan,
I have just sent an interim reply
to your letter of 8th August about the NEC representations on Hong Kong.
I realise how difficult these office meetings can be sometimes, but the Department did seem to have let a lot of loose balls get past them. I wonder if those concerned know their facts as they ought to?
I know O'Keeffe is new and perhaps will benefit from his visit to Hong Kong this autumn. But Timms is an old Hong Kong hand, though his experience is badly out of date. Why has he not been out here to visit us, and why has my suggestion that he should do so before O'Keeffe not been taken up? I even gave an assurance that if this would help the Hong Kong Government would pay.
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Sir Duncan Watson, KCMG
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