CONFIDENTIAL
17
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
5th August, 1939.
My dear Gent,
You will, I fear, look upon my
confidential despatch of August 3rd, which
contains my new proposals regarding the subsidy
to be paid to the Hong Kong Travel Association,
as a 'volte face' of some magnitude. I am afra id
that my previous despatch lay under my 'blind spot' when I signed it, for I do not now find myself in
agreement with its proposals and I regret that I
put them forward: indeed I had to inquire whence
they came.
I am sorry that the Secretary of State
was put into the position of having to turn down
such an obviously wrong-headed suggestion.
Yours very sincerely,
(lat. hothera
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., O.B.E.,
D.S.O., M.C.