OUTWARD TELEGRAM
FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES
5415/4/50
Cypher (0.7.P.)
TO HONG KONG (Sir A. Grantham)
Sent 7th March, 1950.
22.30 hrs.
PRIORITY
No. 322
Beccet.
Your telegram No. 59.
Following personal from Paskin.
Constitution.
Begins.
In course of general talk here Nicoll gave us to understand that it would not run countes to your views if no decision on constitutional changes was
This we feel goos rather taken for several months. beyond general sense of your telegram under reply and we should like confirmation whether a delay of several months before you will be in a position to make any public statement on result of your recommendations for constitutional change, would in effect sccord with your wishes nader present conditions in Hong Kong.