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Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1
A F Thorp Esq
Ministry of Defence
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23 REGISTRY No. 50
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Many thanks for sending me a copy of your record of our meeting with Mr Rodgers on 9 April (D/MIN/WR/8/7).
This is a fair record of the substance of our discussion but there is a point in the last sentence of paragraph 3 which has gone wrong. What I tried to say was that the present status quo suited the Chinese but they looked to us to maintain it. If we reduce the garrison below a certain level they might doubt our ability and reconsider their policy.
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