M.E.D.
Confidential.
February
F.D.
118
1948.
Sir R. Stevenson,
Nanking.
No:
Cypher.
Diplomatic Distn.
Repeat to:
Hong Kong.
Coples to:
Mr. Mayle, C.0.
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IMMEDIATE.
CONFIDENTIAL.
No.
Addressed to Nanking telegram
repeated for information to Hong Kong.
Your telegram No. 116; Kowloon City.
I have been giving my personal attention
to the Kowloon question in order to find a
satisfactory solution.
2.
You should now seek an interview with
Minister for Foreign Affairs at which you
should inform him of my personal interest
in this matter and put to him the following
proposal in my name.
3. Proposal is that the site of the
Kowloon walled city should be cleared and the
area converted into a Garden of Remembrance
in memory of all members of the Allied forces
who fell in the common struggle against Japan.
We should wish to consult with the Chinese as
to some suitable form of memorial to be erected
in the Garden. It is my hope that this solutio:
will not only commend itself to the Chinese
Government, but that it will create a lasting
bond between those who fought together in
the common cause.
4.
[It
It follows of course that the care
and maintenance of the Garden of Remembrance
will fall to the Hong Kong Administration,
but the vexed question of jurisdiction will
surely not arise if this solution is accepted.
5. We would hope also that our other
wartime allies and in particular the United
States/
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