for Mr. Seel's signature, and two drafts for my signature to the Foreign Office and the Treasury. These drafts are all, I think, self-explanatory.
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When action has been taken on these drafts, we must also telegraph to Hong Kong with reference to No.62 to inform Mr. MacDougall that it has now been agreed that Sir Mark Young's despatch No.145 of last October shall not be amended or suffer deletions in any way before publication. We have also to deal with the representations from the China Association, and with the further telegram at No.74 from Hong Kong, containing representations from the General Chamber of Commerce. This telegram was received corrupt, and the correction was not obtained until the 22nd June. It is not however a matter of great urgency, and I have therefore not held up these drafts in order to deal with it. The file should be recirculated quickly to me for this purpose, as som as it can be spared.
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We spoke. The drafts at 80-83 have now been dealt with. A copy of the revised version of the Constitution despatch is now at No..8b.
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Sir T. Lloyd.
In his minute of the 14th June the Secretary of State approved of the draft despatch to Hong Kong, as it then stood (63), being shewn to Sir Mark Young on arrival. This has been done, but I am afraid it is now necessary to trouble you again with certain amendments, which are marked in the copy of the draft at 3. The amendments are fully explained in Mr. Galsworthy's note at 79, but perhaps I should attempt to summarise the points briefly.
Some of the amendments are necessitated by Sir Mark Young's objection to any deletions from his original despatch of the 22nd October, 1946, (69 on 54145/4/46). It appears that the last paragraph of 49 was corrupted in transmission and that he has not at any time been willing to see deletions made. He said on Monday that his Executive Council were aware of the terms of the original draft, and that omissions
would