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report has been put on the Agenda for the Cabinet
Meeting of 14th October. A memorandum is attached on
the Customs Union proposal, in which the Eastern and
Economic Departments both concur. Briefly, we think
that such a Union would be on balance economically
harmful and politically undesirable; and that the
H.K is concerned, preferable alternative is a much less ambitious There may conceivably
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