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I understand that you have drafts in preparation for Lord Lansdowne to send to several MPs (including Dr Bray) about the squatter questions raised by Mrs Elliot and referred to by Dr Eray in his letter of the 9th November, to which the draft opposite is the definitive reply. It would of course be possible to add to the draft opposite a sentence to the effect that Lord Lansdowne will be replying separately very shortly on the points raised by Mrs Elliot.
2.
There is however a further consideration. Mr Bottomley, the chief Opposition spokesman on colonial affairs, has just visited Hong Kong. He saw Lord Lansdowne before he went out and I daresay will wish to see him again on his return. This seems a slightly odd moment, after a silence of over two months, for Lord Lansdowne to write to a back-bench Opposition MP on the rather important matter of the desirability or otherwise of a debate on Hong Kong in the House of Lords.
3. My own thought would be that, after this lapse of time, the letter now in draft about Mrs Elliot's points would provide a better vehicle for a mention by Lord Lansdowne of Dr Bray's letter of the 9th November. The reference to att. Dr Bray's suggestion about the debate could in this way more
easily be played down which I think is the right way to play it anyway.
4.
Ferhaps you would have a word with Mr Fairclough about this suggestion.
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