CO129-590-14 Newsletters from Sir Geoffrey Northcote- Governor of Hong Kong 21-4-1941 - 24-11-1941 — Page 6

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and I think I quite satisfied him that I personally

am as sympathetic as a newcomer can be. I found

him a delightful man of considerable penetration.

He fitted an epithet to the vousponsible and inaffactual N.L. Smitte that impressed me by its aptress. The called him flibburtigibbet and that sums up the charming but Exasperating fallow very well.

There are not many matters at issue

between us and Chungking. I telegraphed some

time ago about the suppression of the Wang Ching

Wei newspapers here and, as I mentioned in that

telegram, the desire to please Chungking is one

of the motives though not the only one. I have

not yet had an answer to this telegram.

Another matter, which was I believe

the main cause of both Clark Kerr and Dr. Quo

thinking us unsympathetic, is the question of

a Chinese Consul General for Hong Kong. I am

just about to answer you on the subject of the

very clever reply which was returned to Northcote's

'stipulations' (afterwards amended to read

'expressions of hope'). My comment is not

particularly sympathetic, but I think that in

actual fact the Hong Kong Government has given

Gaigie Prally

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