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taken with the least possible delay to reduce,

and, if possible, to terminate the Kuomintang

influence in Hong Kong. My Secretary of state would

very much like to see some immediate action taken,

and we should be grateful for Foreign Office advice

and views on this point.

• We should also be grateful for Foreign Office

views on the Governor's suggestion in paragraph 7

as

that we should adopt a longer-term objective, amely the eventual expulsion of the Kuomintang from Hong Kong, and also his view in the following paragraph, that

preparation, should be made to assemble a case on which

this action might be based.