Mr McLaren
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Secretary of State's Whitsun Recess Travel
The Secretary of State was most grateful for your minute of 15 April. He is content with the general proposals, and there seems no reason now why the visit should not be confirmed to both Hong Kong and Manila.
The Secretary of State has not addressed the detail in the submission, but he is clear that it would be better to return to Hong Kong on the evening flight than on the afternoon flight, since this would leave time for a good programme out of Manila on the Sunday. You will wish to consider how this time should best be used: I think it will be important not to use up time with meetings with the Embassy and British Council staff and press conferences which could equally well be done on the Saturday. Given the time of the year and the heat, possibly a visit to the mountains would be interesting! Other alternatives may occur to you. A visit to the International Rice Research Institute might well be worthwhile on Saturday, if there were sufficient time.
As is implied above, the Secretary of State is quite clear that we should travel by commercial flights.
We shall obviously wish to look carefully at the Hong Kong programme as well. I recognise that there are some unavoidable fixtures in it, and that there is a limit to available options. in Hong Kong. However, the programme does look pretty similar to previous programmes which the Secretary of State has undertaken in the colony. New ideas welcome!
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PS/Lord Glenarthur Mr Gillmore
Mr Hum, HKD
Mr Fell, SEAD
Mr Meyer, News Dept Miss Waghorn, Protocol
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