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sufficiently strong to control this area.

It was largely the hope that Chen Chiung-

ming would prove to be capable of

establishing such an authority that

secured him such sympathy as he had in

Hong Kong. After events proved this

expectation to be wrong, but the

principle was sound.

We should, therefore, very

much prefer to drop this whole discussion,

and if you agree, we shall not expect any

official reply to our letter of the 31st

of January.

I she ld like to remind you,

however, that Faure's memorandum, even

allowing for its being unrevised, j

very careless production to be submitted

officially. It is the looseness of the

expression "policy of Hong Kong" that has

caused all the bother and some of his

statements about the "Hav" (e.g. as to

"

"money paid cash down in Europe") are

Quite Hen-but- hardly consistent- with our expressed

deni to drop it)

؟؟

rather

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