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there isn't very much money in the

kitty.

So we find ourselves forced more and more into the position which we in the Colonial Office foresaw long ago, and with some difficulty brought the Treasury at last to appreciate, that we cannot insist that Hong Kong should use H.M.G.'s grant of £250,000 on development (see my minute of 25/5) in e fect we shall in my view have to give Hong Kong a very free hand over it.

3. We shall of course have to secure Treasury agreement to our telegram to Hong Kong. I have therefore sent Mr. Bancroft a copy of (51). The Foreign Office did not receive copies of (44) and (45) and we need not, I think, bring them in.

27.9.48.

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agree

with the diath, except for the

slight amendments have made. My reasons

are

(a) I feel that the Wallace, in defference

to the final para. of my

has

Gone

minute of

21.9.

almost too far in reproducing some

of the earlier remarks in the same minute

which were-designed for internal consumption

in the C.O.!

(b) I don't think we need say in so

#

mary

words anyway

you

won't get much".

Personally I don't think Hong Kong have got

A case

for C.D. & W. Essistance

-

and their

me in that opini-

recent tactics have confirmed ine

on. But if they do produce a rattling good