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H.C. HUDSPITH, ESQ.,
TREASURY.
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Dear Hudspith,"
1 I enclose, as was agreed at
the meeting on the 2nd March, about the
proposed financial settlement for
Hong Kong, a copy of the Governor 8
recent despatch regarding remittances
made through the International Red
Cross for relief work in Hong Kong
during the Japanese occupation. You
will see that the Governot very
emphatically adopts the view that any
funds which may be recovered from the
Red Cross would be due to the Hong
Kong Government; he bases himself
upon a striatly literal interpretation
of the financial settlement of 1948.
Briefly our view is that on a
strictly literal interpretation of the
matter Hong Kong have a clear case but
wa naturally regret that they are taking
--
this line. Obviously a more liberal
attitude, in favour of which numerous
arguments can be advanced, would have been
2.
was agreed al- much more helpful. We feel however that the meeting that
should
nothing can be done about this in
be
deacussed at
-advance of the financial conference
and