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carry conviction with the DOI/DOT unless it were backed up by detailed facts and figures. Even so, you might add, it would
be very difficult to persuade the DOI/DOT and, still more, British industry that Hong Kong's resources would not be enough to implement the Government's present programme unless the MFA were maintained in its present form.
10. Mr Jordan will be seeing Sir Peter Thornton at 3.30 pm on
He called on Mr Murray and myself on
Friday 11 February.
9 February.
11.
Mr Luard will also be a guest at the luncheon and I am copying this brief to his PS.
11 February 1977
1.0.ß. Stent.
JA B Stewart
copy:
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Mr Murray
Mr Murpay
Mr Steve
Stewart
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1. Mr Jordan was critical of the attitude of the Departments of Trade and Industry and suggested that Hong Kong was being unfairly treated. He spent much of his time however trying to justify the point made in paragraph 11 of Hong Kong telegram No 131. I said that we accepted that economic growth was important for Hong Kong but I frankly did not believe that the kind of restrictions on imports of Hong Kong textiles which might emerge could significantly effect economic growth. Still less could I accept that such
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