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sufficiently strong to control this area.
It was largely the hope that Chen Chiung-
ming would prove to be capable of
establishing such an authority that
secured him such sympathy as he had in
Hong Kong. After events proved this
expectation to be wrong, but the
principle was sound.
We should, therefore, very
much prefer to drop this whole discussion,
and if you agree, we shall not expect any
official reply to our letter of the 31st
of January.
I she ld like to remind you,
however, that Faure's memorandum, even
allowing for its being unrevised, j
very careless production to be submitted
officially. It is the looseness of the
expression "policy of Hong Kong" that has
caused all the bother and some of his
statements about the "Hav" (e.g. as to
"
"money paid cash down in Europe") are
Quite Hen-but- hardly consistent- with our expressed
deni to drop it)
؟؟
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