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the current rate, and such cancellation is obviously essential to

the decision conveyed in the Crown Agents' Circular of 26 May.

We are anxious to be assured that the decision rests

Will you therefore be good enough to

on a proper foundation.

let me (for the signatories to the letter of 24 November 1938)

know how the matter stands: whether the Financial Resolution has

been cancelled, and if so whether I can be provided with a copy of

the new Resolution: and if not, whether you will inform me when

it is to be cancelled with a copy of the cancelling Resolution in

due course?

The phrase "curious terms" which I have used above

concerns the use of the word "eligible".

We presume that this

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is the Crown Agents' wording, as the Hong Kong Government would

as the Hong Kong Government hardly have used the word when an unambiguous word e.g. entitled

is called for.

pressing for the formality of a cancellation of the Financial Resolu-

tion, for the cancellation will provide the Government (if it has

not already done so) with the opportunity of preventing any mis-

interpretation in the future of what is clearly to be read as a

This ambiguity provides a funther reason for

definite decision.

X I enclose copies of the two Crown Agents' circulars.

Yours truly

X Not enclosed with this copy.

(să)

E. R. Hallifax

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