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GOVERNOR, HONG KONG.
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Top Secret and Personal.
Following Secret and Personal from Paskin.
Begins.
Your Secret despatch No. 37 of 22nd December
and previous correspondence.
"
Constitution.
Proposals in your Secret despatch No. 28
of 25th August have now been considered by Secretary
general
of State, who is in agreement with them. They Ą
CLAPSE
2. In view of time which has unavoidably
CONSIDERATION speed during ears of
seclzred since your request that your recommendation s
should be treated
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surgent, and alee of present
situation in Hong Kong, we should be grateful for
stee
your confirmation by telegram that you consider that
this 1s this matter of
111 the mount to press forward with
constitutional reforms gent C
3. If you-se-recommend, we shall then
consult the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence
and thereafter hope to give you the "all clear" 20 that do pry of the instrument
drop
You will appreciate, however, that forthcoming
General Election may make consultation with
Ministers more difficult on anything except the
This m
well operate
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most urgent business.
4 Please telegraph your reply. Ends.
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SECER.