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CONTINGENCY PLAN AND STANLEY HO
1.
During my journey to Macau on 10 June I discussed a number of things with Stanley Ho. One was our contingency plan for Macau.
2. I said we have invoked his name as the only possible source of effective transport out of Macau in an emergency. I hoped he was happy with this lese majesté. Ho replied that he would of course put whatever transport was necessary at our disposal and give his full co-operation. He added that the 1967 collapse of Macau government authority had been a pitiful thing but that he could not foresee the circumstances in which such a complete breakdown of law and order could
reoccur.
3. This verbal commitment is worth recording. I am confident Dr Ho would honour it so long as weather permitted air (helicopter) or sea craft to operate.
12 June 1991
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Consular Dept, FCO
FED, FCO
Hong Kong Dept, FCO Lisbon
Peking
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Richard Graham
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