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should be selected or at least that those they dislike should be kept off an enlarged Council, how would we respond? It seems to me that the phrase begs a large question and that the Paper should not enshrine any conclusion based on the assumption that the ground could be prepared with Peking on such a delicate subject as institutional change.

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I am copying this letter only to Murray MacLehose with whom I also talked during my subsequent visit to Hong Kong.

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Yours

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EDWARD YOUDE

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