Leslie Smith.
Dear Mr Blackburn,
24, College Avenue,
Bangor,
11 AP..
Co.Down,
N.Ireland.
Apr:6th.1950.
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I have recently returned to the United Kingdom on leave from Hongkong, where as a member of the Education Department I am actively engaged in the control of political influences in schools, and I had the opportunity two days ago of discussing this aspect of my work with Mr Watson of the Information Research Section of the Foreign Office.
Mr Watson very kindly offered to pro- vide me with certain materials which I may find useful in propaganda work, and undertook to forward it to you for transmission to Hongkong. I should more properly have con- sulted you in the first instance, and sought your consent to such an arrangement before accepting Mr Watson's offer; but my visit to the Foreign Office had been arranged by the Colonial Office for a different, though related, purpose, and I did not therefore anticipate the need for troubling you. Unfortunately, I had to leave London as soon as my bus- iness at the Foreign Office was concluded, and did not have the opportunity of making this request and explanation to you in person. Such a course would have enabled me,also, to explain my bona-fides more satisfactorily. As far as they are concerned, Sir Christopher Cox or Mr Robison, the Assistant Education Advisor, would be good enough, I am sure, to vouch for them.
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Yours very truly,
D. J. Cars in
D.J.Crozier,
Senior Inspector of Schools, Hongkong.
K.".Blackburn Esq., C.M.G.,0.B.E.,
Director of Information Services,
Colonial Office,
Longon.
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