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SIR GEOFFRY NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.
(HONG KONG.)
ams or 45
For the Secretary of State's signature.
Downing Street,
9 No.
Dear Northcote
October, 1939.
An official despatch
about
will reach you by this mail on the
subject of the recommendations of
the Hong Kong University Committee,
but I want to supplement it by
•
FURTHER ACTION.
this personal explanation.
Following upon your despatch of the
tch
(No.2.)
13th of June No.425) and your
personal letters and the discussions
here with Sloss, we made it clear
to the Treasury and the Foreign Office
that we were strongly impressed
by