raise in the near future.
I am not at all
hopeful that there is much chance of War Office
agreeing, but I submit a draft for conson.
No. 4.
This is the sort of small point which
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Hong Kong is fond of raising, but which is
definitely not worth while.
The amount of
money involved is trifling, and by putting up
a lot of small points like this to the War
Office, we simply enable War Office to reply as in
No. 1" It has been found possible by making
certain concessions to accept the majority of
the claims", whereas, in fact, War Office is giving
way on no item that is of any real importance.
I would not put ilo. 4 to the War Office, but would
reply that, at a time when we are trying to obtain
some concessions of real value, it is not thought
desirable to complicate the issue by putting forward
requests for concessions where the amount involved
is trifling.
J. A. Calder
13.8.32
I have discussed this with Mr. Calder, and I
agree that all that we can do at the moment is to
make another attempt to convince the War Office
of the merits of our case. I have not much hope
that they will agree to make further concessions, but
the difficulty arises that if a decision is to be
taken definitely to reject the War Office view, the
authority