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I suggest that I should reply to Brigadier Field on the lines of the attached draft which I think makes clear our opinion of the respective attitudes of the two chief men concerned.
Dr. Selwyn-Clarke is not everybody's meat, and there may, of course, be some personal feeling on Professor (now Lieutenant-Colonel) Ride's part from his peacetime dealings with Dr. Selwyn-Clarke. Nevertheless his intensely patriotic outlook might alone account for his suspicions. have had evidence of the energetic way in which Dr. Selwyn-Clarke set out after the fall of Hong Kong to remedy the calamitous medical and health conditions with which the Colony was faced at the time.
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This correspondence should be filed on the secret Hong Kong file of Conditions and Reports.
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