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EAST/WEST RELATIONS
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FROM:
MARK ELLIOTT, FED PATE: 28 JULY 1983
cc: PS/Mr Luce
Mr Donald
Mr Clift, HKD Mr Broomfield, EESD
Mr. Myreis Ms Inf
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Ps.
Sir P Cradock has written (21 July) to Sir J Bullard, who is at present on leave, on the subject of the latter's minute of 1 July on East/West relations. In accordance with the
injunction in the last paragraph of Sir P Cradock's letter, See (220) I am submitting a copy of his letter.
2. Sir J Bullard may wish to comment, and to reply to Sir P Cradock, on his return. His minute of 1 July was, as I under- stand it, very much his own personal work, on which FED were naturally not consulted. The major paper on East/West relations which EESD have been coordinating has involved some input from FED; however as the central purpose of that paper was an analysis of Western policy towards the Soviet bloc, the passages on China were (in my view rightly) confined to a brief mention of the effect on our policy towards the Soviet Union of the China factor. The paper did not attempt to analyse in any detail either Sino/Soviet relations or UK/China relations, still less the Hong Kong question.
3.
With this reservation about the background, I entirely agree with all that Sir P Cradock says in his letter.
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Mark Shirt
Mark Elliott