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ABBEY 3411
Extn... 5322
Any communications on the subject of this letter should
be addressed to:-
THE
UNDER SECRETARY
OF STATE,
and the following number quoted :---
S.43698/S.6.
Sir,
SECRET
K
46
AIR MINISTRY, Dept. OA,
30
LONDON, S.W.1.
25 April, 1940.
13
4.K.
NATIONAL
UN FOR
SCHEME
I am commanded by the Air Council to refer to
Colonial Office letter 53846/40, dated 10th April, 1940, and
enclosure, about the request of the Inter-Continent
Corporation for permission to assemble four aircraft in
Hong Kong for delivery to the Chinese Government.
2. In reply, I am to state, for the information of
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that as intimated in
the Air Ministry letter to you dated 31st January last, and
in the Air Ministry demi-official letter to Mr. R. G. Howe,
of which a copy of the Foreign Office, dated 26th February
G
was sent to Mr. G. E.J. Gent the Council regard this question
as one to be decided ultimately on political grounds. If,
in the opinion of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
the circumstances described in the telegram dated 8th April
from the Governor of Hong Kong are such as to justify any
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
Whitehall, S.W.1.
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