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before Kwok got back.
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs then said that in that case Kwok would be use- ful in helping to deal with the result, if any, While he had no sympathy with speculators who had erected insanitary huts on ground which did not belong to them, there must be, he thought, a number of innocent persons among the squatters who would be subject to great hardships. He very much hoped that arrangements might be possible for temporary accommodation for such people and for steps to alleviate distress.
6. I promised to communicate with you as requested and reiterated that the matter had nothing to do with politics but consisted solely of administrative measures which I was sure would be taken as humanely as possible..
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