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10, Downing Street,
Whitehall.
21st January 1931
Personal.
Dear Sir,
The Prime Minister wishes me to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 25th November, and to express his regret
that he is unable to accede to your request for a message.
He trusts that you will understand that he receives so many
requests of this nature that it is literally impossible for
him, in the stress of his many preoccupations, to respond to
them; and as he could not undertake the invidious task of
selecting individual cases for special treatment, he is compelled, as a general rule, to ask that he may be excused. Mr. MacDonald is sorry to have to reply in this way; he
trusts that you will understand his difficulty.
Yours truly,
(Signed) H. G. VINCENT.
The General Manager,
South China Morning Post, Limited.
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