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it would be insignificant.
The important thing is that there should be a visible and continuing flow, even if it
is small. Such a decision would, I know, not be an easy one for you: but failure to take it could in my view be
difficult to defend against a continuing international responsibility for Hong Kong and would also in due course expose us again to the sort of domestic pressure which
produced the SCORRI report.
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Foreign & Commonwealth Office
15 September 1986
GEOFFREY HOWE
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