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DRAFT. LETTER
RT. HON. ERNEST BEVIN, M.P,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
TOP SECRET
draft memorandum
FURTHER ACTION.
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I have been thinking over the
letter (F.1544/376/G) about Hong Kong,
which you sent me on the 25th February,
just before you left for Moscow.
I gather that your view is that if
the question of the future of Hong Kong is
to go to Ministers, it should go direct to
the Cabinet and should not be pursued via
the Far Eastern (Official) Committee.
Further, that you wished to defer the
question whether any such submission shoul
in fact, be made until after you had
discussed policy towards China with
Mr. Marshall.
Although this matter has already
received some consideration in the Far
Eastern (Official) Committee, I certainly
see no objection to its going straight to
the Cabinet now, and, in the hope that y
were able to clear the American policy
aspect with Marshall when you were in
Moscow, I am enclosing the draft of a
paper which I would propose to put in to
Cabinet A Gentation. I should be
grateful