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Sir Gerard Clauson.
The opportunity has not yet occurred of the Secretary of State seeing me with reference to (3) and Miss Baker thinks it is best to send up a minute on the subject.
Mr. Morris and I discussed (3) with the War Office and agree with them that no reply from us is necessary, especially in view of the reply at (5) from A.L.F.S.E.A. The position is set out in Mr. Morris' minute.
As Mr. Morris points out we are going to have a particularly difficult task in getting Hong Kong's rice require ements through the Joint Food Boarding especially as we are obliged to advocate at the same time that rice supplies to China should be reduced to a minimum. The figure which we expect the British representative at the Joint Food Board will put forward, will cover Hong Kong's needs for a population of 3 million, based on the Young Plan. We knot that this will be subject to violent attack by the United States. Considerable harm has been done by the unfortunate reports that appeared in the Press some time ago, that Hong Kong was full of food.
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