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DRAFT. LETTER.
G.V. KITSON, ESQ.,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
FURTHER ACTION.
fan Mayle bisija
Dear Kitson,
8th
February, 1947.
You have no doubt seen my Secretary of
State State's reply, dated 4th February, to Mr. Bevin's
letter of the 28th January (F.527/376/G), in
which Mr. Creech Jones expressed the hope that
Mr. Bevin would agree that the Far Eastern
(Official) Committee should proceed with the
consideration of the future status of Hong Kong
and that the revised paper should be submitted to
that Committee as quickly as possible.
In view of this letter, I hope that you
will be able to let me have, Foreign Office
comments on the revised paper\which I sent you
with my letter of the 14th January within the
next day or so. If it would assist, I would
gladly come over and discuss the paper with you.
On looking through the revised draft,
I think that the reference to the airfield
project in the New Territories in sub-paragraph ·
(c) of paragraph 12 ought to be amplified so
that the Ministers will be aware of the relevant
facts. I therefore propose to substitute the
following for the existing sub-paragraph:-
"(c) The insecurity of our present
tenure of the New Territories for new
projects involving substanțial