regulate and control the number of
factories to be established, I am
advised that it would be premature in
present circumstances to attempt to reach
any precise conclusions on this question.
If it is not possible to pursue with
the present applicants the possibility of
diverting their interest to Burma as a
more desirable site for their enterprise
might
there would appear to be advantages in
securing at least that any factory to be
established with British and American
capital in Hong Kong should take the form
of a single Anglo-American undertaking,
if possible with predominant British
control, rather than two separate and
competing undertakings as you appear to
contemplate at the end of the fourth
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paragraph of your Secret (2) despatch
(110)
of the 19th of September.
Further, it
would be, of course, in the interests of
United