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between the Foreign Office on the one side and the Colonial Cffice and the Hong Kong Government on the other side during several years past, is that our Foreign Office tends to treat Hong Kong with little consideration and is apt to regard it, not as our chief asset on the China coast, but as a hindrance to British policy in China. Anyway, as Governor of Hong Kong, I am bound to put before the Secretary of State for the Colonies as strongly as I am able to do the Hong Kong point of view, and I firmly believe that British policy in China ought to be based chiefly upon the requirements of Hong Kong. I say this with full appreciation of the value or British interests elsewhere and after extensive travels in all parts of China.
There is the closest co-operation between Sir miles
Lampson and myself, but it is unfortunate that we are rarely able to meet each other. He and I are personally very good friends indeed.
Sir Gilbert Grindle, K.C.M.G., C.B.,
Colonial Cffice,
Downing Street,
LONDON, S.W.7, ENGLAND.
Yours sincerely,