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53852/49

C. O.

Mr.K. Thompson.

Mr. Hall 10/11

Mr. Dale . ||

Galamity 12/11 Mr. Sidebotham

Mr.

Permt. U.S. of S.

Parly. U.S. S.

Minister of State

Secretary of State

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DRAFT.

HONG KONG

NO.

DESPATCH

Sir,

YBT.

GOVERNOR

Secret Confidentit

(copy of No. 3- available in 1.R.D.

registry)

Copy of X-X on paps 11-12 5f

Kobi headed "Extract from Summary Records of proceedings of Special Committee on 26th August, 1949.

No. 4.

copy of 9 A-available in

IRD. registry

General Assembly document A/915/Add. In The 22nd August, 1949, a copy of which is enclosed as Armex I to This despatch

FURTHER ACTION.

Crfriges to

6 ли Hatchn Cooke

(New York)

Colonial Athlete, Washingtin

MR. Scarlet (F.O.)

Copy /n 2503/11/19 1.R.D.

for

I have etc. to inform you that

during the course of the meetings of

the Special Committee on information

United Nations transmitted under Article 73 (e) of the)

Charter, held at Lake Success in August

and September, the Chinese Delegate,

Mr. Li, made certain observations on behalf

of his Government relating to sovereignty in Kowloon and the New Territories and

the transmission of information to the

under Anticle 73(e) of the Charter United Nationsyin respect of those fenilenio.

2.

Early in the proceedings of the Special

Committee, when the list of territories

in respect of which information is

transmitted was being reviewed, Mr. Li

called attention to a Secretariat paper

before the Committee in which it was

stated that, whereas in 1946 the United

States had tentatively included the Panama

Canal Zone in the list of non-self-

governing territories under its adminis-

tration, the Government of Panama had

in the same year contested the inclusion

of the Canal zone in that list on the

grounds that the territory could not be

considered

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