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ENCLOSURE No.2
514
If for instance Your Excellency were to designate
informally some representative Heads of Departments who
would be consulted in the first instance (not necessarily
submitting a scheme for criticism but for the purpose of
gathering material and arguments for some Boheme) and
were to afford the Secretary of state an opportunity of
considering their representations on each occasion of
concern to the interests of the Bervice, to our mind the
necessity for an organisation would entirely disappear.
We have in the meantime suspended taking any action
in the matter,
(Signed)
A.M.Thonson
E.R.Hallifax.
Hong Kong
5th eptember 1918,