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All or these except Mr. Morse are Members of the Legislative Council.
Mr. Morse is General Manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. He has worked closely with the Colonial Office during the war and will I think be generally regarded as a most suitable choice.
Mr. Landale, or Jardine Mathesons, "regarded as one of the most brilliant or the younger men" was working in the Ministry of War Transport, Berkeley Square, during the war. Mir. Gillespie or the Imperial Chemical Industries, Hong Kong, was interned in Stanley until his repatriation with the Canadians in 1943.
T.N. Chau was completely disassociateu with the Japanese occupation as he was in Macao during the occupation. Particulars OI M.K. Lo are given in 21 in which the C. in C. telegraphed material for the reply to a recent P.Q.
The Governor proposes that the offer of appointment to these Unofficial members should be limited to a period or one year in view of the consideration of
constitutional changes to which he referred in his speech on arrival.
? agree to the reduction or the Official and the increase of the Unorricial Members of the Executive Council and to the names proposed in 24 and 26. Drart telegram herewith.
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