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22m1 February, 1945.
Dear P.V
Thank you for your letter of 12th February,
about the Hong Kong emergency administration party. I
felt sure that you would share my appreciation of the
practical importance of taking some precaution of this
sort, and I should not regard the recent Japanese
moves in South China as affecting the need for asking
the Military Attache to get ahead with thinking out
the necessary plan of a scheme for submission to us.
For my part I appreciate your comments as to
the character of the proposcd "energency administration"
and I accept your aendments in the deft telegram with
the addition that I feel that the paragraph beginning
"second" should be revised as follows:-
"second.
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In that event Colonial Office consider
very necessary to forestall assumption of
civil administration by Chinese by means of
The Right Honourable
Sir James Grigg, ACB, KCSI, MP.
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