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PRH Wright Esq
Private Secretary to the Prime
Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1
Mr Havelock, MEPT Mr Macdonald, IC
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DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY
HONG KONG POWER STATION PROJECT
My Minister of State has seen your letter of 9 May
which recorded that the Prime Minister had asked that
HM Ambassador in Tokyo should be informed of the Prime
Minister's discussion of the Hong Kong power station
project with the Japanese Prime Minister the previous
day.
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The Minister of State agrees that we must keep HM
Ambassador in Tokyo informed about the China Light
and Power discussions. However, he is inclined to
doubt whether the British interest is best served
putting open pressure on the Japanese in respect of
this contract. If it became known that Britain had
exerted pressure on Japan not to put in as competitive
a tender as they might otherwise do (and if the Japanese
Government passed this message on to their industry,
as they would have to for it to become effective, it would almost certainly become public knowledge) the
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