Dr D C Wilson Political Adviser
Government Secretariat Lower Albert Road HONG KONG
HE FOZG?
22 JUL 1980
233-4381-
No!
FA
RIBR 25/7.
15 July 1980
45
1. Although it is over three weeks since I left Hong Kong, I have only just returned to London following a week's
'familiarisation' in China and two weeks' leave in South- East Asia. This accounts for the delay in my writing to you as the most appropriate representative of the Hong Kong Government to express my thanks for the first-rate programme which was arranged for me and for the courtesy and enthusiasm with which I was received throughout my visit. John Curle and his people, in particular, could not have been more helpful and the entire programme was executed with blinding efficiency.
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2. Back at my desk, Hong Kong no longer seems so distant and mysterious. I hope that the end result of such visits by the department will also make London appear less remote and aloof to those at the Hong Kong end.
3.
I am sorry I did not have more time with Derek March and I hope he will not mind my copying this letter to him by way of a short-hand way of acknowledging his contribution to the programme.
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cc: D M March Esq OBE
BTC, Hong Kong
P Morrice
Hong Kong and General Department