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Mr. Lloyd

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With reference to the attached from the Foreign Office, I am telling Mr. Kitson that I have divested myself for the time being of the care of Hong Kong affairs and that Paskin is the person for him to communicate with on Hong Kong questions.

As regards this particular document by Mr. Keswick: who is a very intelligent member of the firm of Jardines in Hong Kong and has only recently given up a political post on SAUSZA's staff, in the course of which he was attached by SAUSMA to C.-in-C., Hong Kong for purposes of liaison with II.. Ambassador in China,

you will probably wish to obtain

Sir Lark Young's com.ents on this

memorandum and on the Foreign Office letter,

and I should doubt if he has any difficulty in making wry effective criticis. s both on questions or fact anl policy.

(Sgu.) 1.4.-. Gent

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iss Ruston

Mr. Lloyd passed this on to me.

I agree that we should get

Sir Mark Young's views on the suggestions made by Mr. Keswick. Before doing so, however, I think that we should give some preliminary consideration to the suggestions here, particularly in the light of any developments affecting those matters which have taken place whilst Sir Mark Young has been interned, and

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