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No doubt you will arrange, in due course, for Lord Benson and the Secretary of State to be informed accordingly, in confidence.
It will be for you to decide what announcement, if any, should be made to the media in Hong Kong. We thought that we should say as little as possible, except to announce the resignation, even if this will not mislead anyone as to the true position and there will, no doubt, be criticism of our supposed
Alas, we cannot expect to win!
generosity.
Enc.
Yours
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Denys Roberts
(Denys Roberts) Chief Justice
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