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case and to the physical limitations of the
Airport, it will be necessary to 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.
Since it does not fela To be
If ii is not possible to
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pursue with the present applicants the
diverson of
possibility of diverting their interest
to Burma as a more desirable site for
their enterprise as far as the strategic
interests of His Majesty's Government are
concerned, there might 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 predominent British
control, rather than two separate and
competing undertakings as you appear to
contemplate at the end of the fourth
paragraph of your Secret (2) despatch
of