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RECAVED IN MAGISTRY NO
4 OCT 1979
¡CER
PR
REGION
Robert Jackson Esq
Royal Institute of International
Affairs
Chatham House
10 St James's Square
LONDON SW1Y 4LE
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3 October 1979
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ARTICLE ON HONG KONG BY GORDON LAWRIE
-Thank you for your letter of 10 September. As I explained to
your secretary on the telephone, this only reached me on
2 October as a result of some delay in transmission (not the fault of the Institute: the letter was post-marked 12 September).
Mr Lawrie's article strikes us as sensible, well-informed and balanced, though we would not necessarily agree with everything he says.
I would have thought it well worth including in "International Affairs".
There is one point of fact that I would hope could be amended if the article is to be published: on page 13, it is stated that "visas for Taiwan can be obtained at a travel agency [in Hong Kong]". This is not in fact true, though I believe that the agency does have an arrangement for issuing letters of introduction which serve much the same purpose as visas - but that is a different matter.
There is a typing error at the bottom of page 22, the last word of which should be "Commonwealth" not "colonial".
I am returning the article herewith.
WE Quantrill
Hong Kong and General Department
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