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Mr.
Mr.
Mr............
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Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. S.
Secretary of State.
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Covered & Resp. 15/9.11
Your Reference.......
15th
DRAFT. LETTER
SECRET
For Mr. Mayle's signature
September, 1947.
D.M. MacDougall, C.M.G.,
117 and 118
Copy of 119
FURTHER ACTION.
Recirc. to MR.
Wallan (R. 535)
You have already had direct
from Sir R. Stevenson copies of two
confidential letters which he wrote to
Kitson, of the Foreign Office, Nos. 3/0513 and 8/0544 of the 24th June and 3rd July
respectively, reporting conversations
between Sir R. Stevenson and the Portuguese
Ambassador in Nanking concerning Macao.
I think therefore you will be interested to
see the enclosed copy of Kitson's reply to
Sir R. Stevenson of the 17th July, which I
am sending to you with the concurrence of
the Foreign Office. Kitson', incidentally,
has now left the Foreign Office.
2. I think you should also know that,
on receiving a copy of Kitson's letter, I
felt obliged to comment on two passages which
I felt might give rise to misunderstanding.
The first of these passages is in paragraph
2 of Kitson's letter where it is stated that
Mr. Bevin recently persuaded Mr. Creech Jones
to agree to defer for the present the
"reassuring statement" which we had been
wanting to make about Hong Kong, and which,
the Foreign Office felt woul