CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945 — Page 114

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Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

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S.W.1.

21st June, 1945.

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My dear Sterndale Bennett,

Many thanks for your letter F 3171/1147/G of the 7th of June. I am very sorry to find that your / earlier letter F 1543/1147/10 ōf the

19th March, enclosing a copy of Sir Horace Seymour's letter of the 21st of February, asking for guidance about the future of Hong Kong, had been overlooked.

I think the papers that you propose to send him would most certainly be useful and I have no comments or suggestions to add except that you may like to

include the enclosed copy of a note of guidance to the Colonial Office representative at the San Francisco Conference on policy regarding the fiture status of Hong Kong.

Yours sincerely,

(Sgd.) G.E.J.GENT:

J.C. Sterndɛle Bennett, Esq., CMG, MC.