CONFIDENTIAL
Sir P Cradock
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ник 040157
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22 NOV 1984
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INDEX
Prime Minister's Visit to Peking
Pa
PA
Action Taken
20/11.
The Secretary of State was most grateful for your note of 14 November about the possibility of the Prime Minister taking industrialists with her to Peking.
He told me that as a result of reading your note and re-reading the Governor's telegrams he was now less inclined to think that this was a good idea. But he knew that the Prime Minister attached some importance
to it, and that she is being pressed by certain industrialists in this direction. In these circumstances he believes that you should let the Governor know that pressures are building up on the Prime Minister to take this course, that she is herself inclined to do so, and that he himself although
at first inclined to agree, was now coming to the view that this was not such a good idea. It would be useful if the Governor could send further advice which could be put to the Prime Minister. In view of the Guangdong dimension, you might also wish to commission further views from Sir Richard Evans.
15 November, 1984
cc: Mr Galsworthy, HKD
Pickrests
(P F Ricketts)
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