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Parkes paid that he
was very sorry that somewhere along the ling the attribution was changed. He said that the story had beer put out in the Los Angeles Times syndicated service: some subediting took place at this point, and this could have been where the trouble arose. Alternatively, it may have been sub- edited by the Guardian, who may have assumed that it was diplomat in Peking simply because Parkes was in Peking.
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7. I have not taken up with Parkes the fictitious claim be apparently made in Hong Kong to various interlocutors that ha had had an interview with the British Ambassador, since I think that that is for the Ambassador to do if he wishes.
mus-ever,
co: R P Marrolia Esq,
DPA, Hong Kong
Tuy
A C Galsworthy
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