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21st June, 1947.

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hey dean Lloyd,

(68)

Your letter of 30th May about the editorial

from the Hong Kong Telegraph enclosed with Sir Mark Young's

(67) letter of 15th May.

I do not really think that there is anything

sinister in the failure to mention the Parliamentary announcement

of the 5th March. I believe the real truth is that local

feeling does not hold the Parliamentary announcement, gratifying

though it was to represent an advance on the Secretary of State's

initial permission to the Governor to make the Constitutional

announcement he did on first arrival; in other words, that the

decision in principle had already been made in May 1946 and was

therefore merely confirmed by the later Parliamentary amouncement.

However, I will have a word with the Editor of the

Hong Kong Telegraph, who is a very reasonable chap, just to make

sure.

The impatience is part of the general picture in Hong

Kong. Two years have brought us to the point where quick

results are no longer possible, i.e. we have polished off the

easy things and now face problems that take time to solve. We

shall without doubt be sniped at increasingly from here on.

With best wishes,

Sir Thomas Lloyd, K.C.M.G.,

Colonial Office.

Yours sincerely,

mit.

D.M.MacDougall.