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Mr. Watson
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Mr. Melville
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I am writing to you in my capacity as Chairman
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of the U.K. Preparatory Working Party on Hong Kong
about J.P.(57)165(Final), which I understand the Chiefs tomorrow.
of Staff are taking en-Thursday, The first paragraph
of that paper indicates that the Foreign Office and our-
selves have a number of reservations on the sequence of
planning, and this letter, which has been agreed by the
Foreign Office at official level, sets these out.
work of the
2. As we see the Anglo/U.S. Working Group on Hong
Kong, the objective on the U.K. side is that we should
secure a commitment from the United States that the
British position in the Colony should be maintained,
with United States support, amounting if necessary to
support with nuclear weapons;
that this should not be
and that the United States
explicit to the Chinese;
maintenans of au
should accept the /British position in Hong Kong as difpendent on
holding a neutral balance between the Chinese Nationalists
and the Communists. The commitment itself is expressed
in the form of assumptions in paragraph 3 of the J.P.
with
paper, and we are much concerned that the tactics to be
followed in securing their acceptance by the United States.
It is on these tactics that we part company with the
sequence of planning which is setpout in paragraph
10 of the paper.
IMP 5/57 AT&S. 768
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