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Extract from Office Report of the
8th November, 1944.
BRITISH EMPIRE (HONG KONG)
Mr. Astor asked the Prime Minister whether Hong Kong
or any other part of the Smpire is excluded from his
declaration that it is not proposed to liquidate the British
Empire.
The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee): No part of
the British Empire or Commonwealth of Nations is excluded
from the scope of the declaration referred to.
Mr. Astor: While expressing great pleasure that this
declaration has come from the Leader of the Labour Party',
may I ask him whether all encouragement will now be given
to British firms to prepare plans for re-establishing
themselves in Hong Kong, and getting on with British
export trade in that area?
Mr. Attlee:
That is obviously so.
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