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I spoke to N Wyatt and said that, colile We were in no hurry to move forward at all, we bad agreed to the Chinese being sounded out and it was not really for us to comment on the practicalities of how it should be done. To that extent we had no comment on the draft telegram. However I emplusined that all we had agreed to so for
was that there should be a general testing of the water to find out what the chinese attitude to Hong
was. Once we knew that, we should try to do a dispassionate review of the pros and of taking the subject any further, drawing on the wateral we now have from Hon Kong (setting at the HK interest) and the Dot, betty
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