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The President has mentioned this proposal quite informally to the Chinese Ambassador in London, who welcomes it. The Ambassador suggested that the Mission should consist of perhaps ten or twelve people, but the President agrees with us that since this is to be a good-will Mission rather than a selling Mission its numbers should be small and that it might consist of the leader and, say, four other business men, plus a secretary.
The President has discussed with us the personnel of the Mission and D.O.T. are attempting to secure for leader either Mr. Hanbury-Williams, the Managing Director of Courtaulds, or Sir John Maitland Greenly, the Chairman of Babcock and Wilcox Limited. Among those who will be approached to take part in the Mission will be Mr. A.R. Guinness. We realise that in previous correspondence he had been suggested for leader of the Mission, but in view of internal political complications between the various United Kingdom industrial associations we should prefer not to put him in so prominent a place as leader. choosing members we will, of course, try to keep clear of people who are too closely associated with the old regime. To avoid embarrassment among the industrialists who are being approached, we are preserving great secrecy as to the whole matter.
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