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121 street from Weekly Summary of Hong Kong

(CRIB of 96009/15/47).

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Press Comments 20-2

230-27/7/47.

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125 Foreign Office (F 11771/376/6)

Mr. Mayle

8.47 1.9.47

In No. 125 the Foreign Office have accepted your comments in No.123 on Mr. Kitson's letter to Sir R. Stevenson at No.119. I now submit a draft letter for your signature to Mr. MacDougall, enclosing a copy of No.119 and making the three points.in question. In that draft I have, in addition, rather expanded the reference to Macao, in the light of the correspondence at No.122. I don't think we need send Hong Kong copies of this correspondence, which passed between Sir R. Stevenson and the Indian Ambassador in Nanking, and simply contains certain background information about the status of Macao and Chinese policy towards that territory. The Indian Government apparently wanted this information in case there was anything in it which they might turn to advantage in establishing a policy of their own towards the Portuguese possessions in India. Sir R. Stevenson was at pains not to compromise the position of the Portuguese in Macao, and particularly our own posdam in Hong Kong, and I don't think he had done so.

After action these papers should be recirculated to Mr. Walls to see.

Anralsually

12th September, 1947

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