CO129-527-6 Possibility of compiling history of Hong Kong from official Colonial Office records 20-6-1930 - 15-10-1930 — Page 11

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times will be more favourable to its

reception than might perhaps be likely

if it were to appear at the present juncture.

The author must of course support the

British case on the several

controversial questions with which it

must deal, and the book should be very

carefully written by Mr. Hughes from this

point of view, and it should be

scrutinised in draft by the authorities

in the Colony and at the Colonial Office,

before it is published.

I have, etc.

(Signed) PASSFIELD.

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