URGENT
(UR 6022/9/850)
Dear Mayle,
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1. 57
11th July, 1946.
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In reply to your letter (54339/46) of the 5th July about U.N.R.R. A. assistance for Hong Kong we have now received a further telegram from Washington (No.4264 of 30th June, 1946) of which I enclose a copy.
2. In view of this and of Stent's telegram in Shanghai's No.339 of 25th June we agree that it would be best that no request for assistance on behalf of Hong Kong should be made.
3.
The only comments on your draft telegram which I can suggest are:-
(a) The word "likely" at the commencement of line 14 should be altered to "possible" as I am not sure that examinations of a government's financial position are made in the case of emergency relief cases of this sort.
(b) The last paragraph might now (in view of Washington telegram No.4264) be somewhat altered to definitely discourage any idea of an application being made.
40 I am sending a copy of this to Griffiths at the Treasury with reference to his letter (F. 18642/086) of 24th June, 1946.
N. L. Mayle, Esq.,
Colonial Office.
Yours sincerely,
Zoobe
Lobbet.
(K.J. Gabbett)