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UNITED KINGDOM DELEGATION TO THE UNITED NATIONS

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

NEW YORK 1, N. Y.

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CONFIDENTIAL

REPLIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED

P. O. Box 304

NEW YORK 1, N. Y.

16th September, 1949

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My dear Art,

With reference to your telegram Brief No. 171 and paragraph 2 of my telegram No. 9 (to Foreign Office No. 1813 of 9th September) you may care to know that your telegram reached me just in time, and I was able to "reserve the position of H.M.G. in this matter" just before we opened the discussion of the Rapporteur's draft report. Having so reserved our position during the Committee's substantive deliberations, I was subsequently able to insist upon a reference to this reservation in the report.

You will, however, be interested to see from the enclosed correction to Summary Record No. 2 that Li (China) has revised his intervention for the Summary Records, and he now specifically suggests that, if the fact that sovereignty over a territory rests with another state, is considered a reason for ceasing to transmit information, then information should cease to be trans- mitted on Kowlon and the New Territories as sovereignty over those territories rests in the Republic of China.

As I have reserved H.M.G.'s position, the fact that he has changed his approach is not of any great significance, but I think it would be well to get a clear line established on this point as doon as possible in case it comes up in the Fourth Committee.

A.N. Galsworthy, Esq.,

International Relations Dept., COLONIAL OFFICE.

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Jou

(J. Fletcher-Cooke)

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