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Sir Mark Young will be seeing the Department at 5 o'clock, before his interview with the Secretary of State, when he will be shown the duplicate of the attached note.
The public statements, quoted in the note, seem to give Sir Mark Young sufficient guidance to enable him to answer questions that may be put to him concerning H.M.G.'s policy. He would, I suggest,
be fully justified in taking the line that H.M.G. do not contemplate any change in the status of Hong Kong and that this is fully borne out by the public statements which have been made at various times between October, 1942 and August, 1945. As regards the New Territories, he could say that this would be a matter for negotiation between H.M.G. and the Chinese Government and refer in this connection to the speech by Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek on the 24th August, in which the Generalissimo himself said that this would be the procedure.
There is attached to the note a copy of an extract relating to Hong Kong from a draft memorandum on "British Foreign Policy in the Far East" which was prepared for the Far Eastern Committee in January, 1946. As Miss Ruston points out, this is subject to further amendment on the official level and has never been considered on the Ministerial level. I suggest, therefore, that it should be made clear to Sir Mark Young that this memorandum, which discusses alternative courses of action to deal with claims that may be raised by the Chinese Government either to the New Territories or Hong Kong, represents views which have been put forward at the official level but which have not received Ministerial consideration. It is no more than that and should not be taken as indicating the action which is likely to be taken by H.M.G. in the event of the Chinese Government advancing claims to the New Territories or Hong Kong.
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