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6.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
24th November, 1941.
My dear Gant
(5)
Thank you for your letter of the
23rd September.
I have now seen Northcote's (1)
letters of the 21st and 22nd April and I will
certainly write to you demi-officially when
there are matters which I want to put to you
'off the record'. I won't make a definite
promise of a monthly newsletter, for fear that
I might not fulfil it any better than Northcote
did.
Our relations with the Chungking
Government - which means pretty much the same
thing as our relations with Clark Kerr are
very good at present. When he stayed with me
last month he found to his surprise and my
satisfaction that the Cadet Officers here
North and others whom he has for some time
been regarding as antediluvian and hopelessly
unsympathetic in their outlook on China appeared
to have reformed since he last talked with them;
G.E.J. Gent, Esq., C. M.G., D.S.O., M.C.