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offer to open conversations with China on matters of

common concern to both

countries, not specially on Hongkong, but indicating that Hongkong would be within the scope of the talks? The ngotiations need not move very fast and we could do some hard bargaining, but the mere fact that the subject was officially under discussion would take the sting out of the behind-the-scenes agitation in China and make it less likely that Chungking would

into a Fiume adventure.

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should get agree gratitude from China for a unilateral gesture" of rendition. But it is important that the rendition, if it is to be made, should be made on principle as recognition of China's services to the cause of the United Nations, and not

grounds of geographical and ethnic claims by China; otherwise it would serve as a precedent for Gibraltar.

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