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of State is not informed on this point and would like to know how the matter stands. He assumes that any necessary steps will be taken to ensure that the direction of Information Services in Hong Kong is in competent hands and that the Foreign Office will be brought fully into the picture.

I am sending a copy of this minute to

Mr. Blackburne and Sir T. Lloyd and the Rees Willams,

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Khan Waton

6.7.1949.