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Mr Murray
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Sir Murray MacLehose GBE KCMG KCVO Governor and Commander-in-Chief HONG KONG
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SUBJECT: HONG KONG/LONDON AIR ROUTE: CAA DECISION
1. We have; as you know, done as much as we can to impress
upon the Department of Trade
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political and economic
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implications of the Civil Aviation Authority's decision.
We have sent you personally a copy of the Lord Privy Seal's
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letter of 7 April to Mr Nott. have, in addition,
passed to the Department of Trade the letters enclosed with
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significant representations which come our way.
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I hope all this will have some effect.
We are,
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course, as much concerned as you are about the
consequences of the decision and the need, if possible,
I hope that the arguments which have licen
effent. However
to get it altered. But, despite the weight of ammunition Evelled at
will indeed have ane which has been thrown, at the Department of Trade,
we have
to face up to the distinct possibility that there will be
no change and that Mr Nott will see no alternative to
denying the route to CPA. We all realise that the
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resulting resentment in Hong Kong would be much greater
that caused by the initial decisin than that we have seen so far. There obviously would
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