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DD/COPY PS 1072/8
81031/26/50
Commissioner General for the United Kingdom
in South East Asia.
Singapore.
7th June, 1950.
Dear Department,
Leslie Smith in Hong Kong has asked us if we can arrange
a supply of books for reference and background.
2.
Of the books you have sent us we suggest that the following would be useful to him and we shall be glad if you can arrange for them to be sent to him.
3.
Stalin, A Political Biography (Deutscher) Nineteen Eighty Four (Orwell
The British Yoke (Evans)
East of the Iron Curtain (Bartlett)
Marxism and the National and Colonial Question (Stalin)
The Theory and Practice of Communism (Carew Hunt)
The God That Failed (Koestler etc)
Moscow Mission (Bedell Smith)
Soviet Genetics (Huxley)
The books for which Leslie Smith specifically asks are:-
The Twentieth Century in the Far East (Kent) China: the Far East and the Future (Keeton)
We have neither of these here. If you think them useful perhaps you will send copies both to us and to him.
Yours ever,
REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE.
Information Research Department,
Foreign Office,
London. S.W.1.