5.
expert witnesses cross-examined
in Court (see paragraph 1 of (278))?
Copies of (293) have gone to the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence. I have had a word with Mr. Scott, though he has not yet seen his copy of (293). The reason why it is desired particularly to give urgent consideration to this Kowloon case is that Mr. Bevin is meeting the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs on or about the 28th (see (291)). Mr. Scott therefore agrees that we should have a joint meeting as early as possible, preferably on Monday the 25th. We should get a Ministry of Defence representative to the meeting also and I will arrange this as soon as I know the date and time.
6. You asked that this case should be sent through Sir Sidney Abrahams.
V.creen
21.10.48.
wasting
on the 25th
indeed would
Tabell be placed to attend a
it can be managed. Trea
7
reend
any
views at this stage &
find it very beffiett to do so.
22/1965
Mr. Paskin
The Governor now has stated his views, on the advice of his Civil and Military Advisers, on the military angle, after having studied a summary of the Law Officers' opinion that we had no real sound case on which to take the Chinese case to arbitration. On the face of it, at any rate, the reasons against compromising in such a way to concede jurisdiction in the Walled City to the Chinese Government are not, I think, unimpressive, but their actual value can only be assessed, of course, by military experts. A copy of the telegram has gone to the Ministry of Defence. I think the words "If...
fail" at the beginning of paragraph 7 of the telegram at No. 293 must refer to prevailing at an arbitration and not to prevailing with H.M.G.7
/I agree