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ADVANCE COPY
TO F C O TELNO 419 OF 27 APRIL
INFO PEKING (FOR AMBASSADOR),
YOUR TEL. 247:
POWER STATION FOR HONG KONG.
18/27
Sir Peter Caney DOI. Нанкоого
PLEASE PASS TO SIR PETER CAREY, D.0.1.
27 APR 17
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ACCORDING TO THE RECORD SIR LAWRENCE HAS SHOWN ME OF HIS MEETING WITH THE PRIME MINISTER, HE EMPHASISED THAT PRICE WAS NOT THE SOLE CRITERION, AND THAT HE NEEDED A NOVEL APPROACH SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THE USUAL PROCEDURES OF COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATION THAT WOULD BE A TOTAL PACKAGE.
2. HE TOLD ME THAT IN SPEAKING IN THIS WAY HE HAD IN MIND THE
DIFFICULTY OF PERSUADING HIS BOARD (WHICH INCLUDES ESSO) NOT TO GO
TO INTERNATIONAL TENDER IF HMG SIMPLY OFFERED WHAT SEEMED A COMPETITIVE PRICE. THIS IS UNDERSTANDABLE. HE THEREFORE HOPES FOR A NOVEL PROPOSAL THAT FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER EVADED COMPARISON WITH ANY BID LIKELY TO BE MADE BY THE JAPANESE. THE IDEAS HE THREW
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