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Mr.

Mayke "Ya

Mr.

Mr.

Mr............

(130)

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. S.

Secretary of State.

126

Covered & Resp. 15/9.11

Your Reference.......

15th

DRAFT. LETTER

SECRET

For Mr. Mayle's signature

September, 1947.

D.M. MacDougall, C.M.G.,

117 and 118

Copy of 119

FURTHER ACTION.

Recirc. to MR.

Wallan (R. 535)

You have already had direct

from Sir R. Stevenson copies of two

confidential letters which he wrote to

Kitson, of the Foreign Office, Nos. 3/0513 and 8/0544 of the 24th June and 3rd July

respectively, reporting conversations

between Sir R. Stevenson and the Portuguese

Ambassador in Nanking concerning Macao.

I think therefore you will be interested to

see the enclosed copy of Kitson's reply to

Sir R. Stevenson of the 17th July, which I

am sending to you with the concurrence of

the Foreign Office. Kitson', incidentally,

has now left the Foreign Office.

2. I think you should also know that,

on receiving a copy of Kitson's letter, I

felt obliged to comment on two passages which

I felt might give rise to misunderstanding.

The first of these passages is in paragraph

2 of Kitson's letter where it is stated that

Mr. Bevin recently persuaded Mr. Creech Jones

to agree to defer for the present the

"reassuring statement" which we had been

wanting to make about Hong Kong, and which,

the Foreign Office felt woul