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in Despatch No. 96 to Hong Kong of 14 January
1958 (FED 489/400/01) from the then Secretary of
State for the Colonies. C.S. undertook to look
into the matter.
9.
Mr. Cortazzi asked for reactions
to proposals for a more interventionist policy
by the FCO and use of directions by the S of S
to save the burden on the Governor. H.E. said
that nothing would be more likely to increase
his problems than the latter device. With
regard to more active liaison with the FCO it
was essential that all the material necessary to
answer questions put by or to Ministers should
be available in the FCO and if it was not
additional arrangements should be made. He
thought that we should agree the areas of
administration in which progress was of particular
interest to the FCO and provide sufficient
material on plans relating to them to enable the
FCO to discuss the plans with the Hong Kong
Government and monitor progress on them. He
believed that such material was available in the
FCO but this could be looked at. However
it would be quite wrong to attempt to run long
Kong from the FCO, or to entertain any idea that
this was physically possible or politically
feasible. Nothing of the sort, had ever been
attempted by the Colonial Office.
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