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The Secretary of State would be grateful it
Lord Gleworth could send this letter.
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13 January 1989
PS/Lord Glenarthur
Mr Gillmore
Mr McLaren
Mr Burns, News Dept
Private Secretary
TIMES LEADER: RETREAT FROM HONG KONG
A 1.
We discussed the leader in today's Times. You said that you thought the Secretary of State would want the misrepresentations in the leader to be corrected on the record in a letter to the Editor. I told you that both Sir Percy Cradock and the Governor had expressed to me their hope that there would be a formal rebuttal.
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I submit a draft letter to the Editor of the Times. The Secretary of State will wish to consider whether it could better go from him, with a degree of added weight, or from Lord Glenarthur. I think the former would be better.
3.
I think it would be tactically wise to concentrate on a fairly narrow rebuttal of the obvious errors in the leader.
It covers a lot of ground (albeit very sketchily and inaccurately), and to attempt to deal with everything could lead to an unfocussed letter which would lay us open to further attack.
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