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available for introduction into Hong Kong either with or very soon after the despatch of the fleet units allotted that task. If, therefore, a suggestion of this kind is to be put to the Chiefs of Staff, it seems to me that we should be prepared to go one stage further and attempt to make available in some suitable place, a bare nucleus of two or three senior "Civil Affairs" Officers who could be rushed into Hong Kong at short notice. It could probably be arranged that any such nucleus as might be organised for the purposes of paragraph 1 (b) could be introduced rapidly into Hong Kong shortly after the arrival of the fleet units suggested for this latest considered contingency. But we have not yet got a plan worked out for contingency 1 (b) and it will, therefore, be for consideration whether some ad hoc arrangements should not be made (as an interim measure - possibly to be discarded later) for a party to be made available to accompany any occupation of Hong Kong by British fleet nits.
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The details of a scheme to be presented to the Chiefs of Staff will require careful thought and the first step seems to be to obtain authority for the preparation of a paper of the kind which I have indicated.
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Pasuin
3rd August, 1945
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