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The fact that Dr. Wellington Koo mentioned to Mr. Noel Baker the conversation that General Chian Kai-shek had had with Sir H. Seymour, thus ensuring trim an approach at both ends, at it were, does suggest that the Chinese are expecting the issue of the future of Hong Kong to be pursued.
3. The Secretary of State has indicated in (15) that if the Foreign Office still wish to pursue the suggestion which they made in the enclosure to (7), that we should take the initiative by inviting China to discuss the status of the New Territory,
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