CO129-611-2 Liaison with British Embassy and consulates in China- appointment of political advisor 1-9-1945 - 20-10-1947 — Page 14

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three years, in accordance with that recommendation; that we propose to defer consideration of

Sir Mark Young's second recommendation; but that we would be glad of any Foreign Office views

on this recommendation and also on the third recommendation.

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Mr. Mayle.

I agree generally with the line which you propose should be taken but this is, I think, of sufficient importance to be worth handling at the Assistant Secretary level and I should like you, if you see no objection, to send it semi-officially to your opposite number at the Foreign Office. Also, it might be well to give the person there to whom you write some indication of the views that you have expressed opposite on both the second and third recommendations in Sir M. Young's despatch. We can do this without any show of insistence upon those views and yet may manage by this means to lead the Foreign Office to fall in with them.

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i spoke to Mr. Scott today about the appointment of a Political Adviser referred to in the Governor's despatch at 16 and sent to the F.0. at 17 in connection with the P.Q. which Mr. Janner is to ask on 27th January. Mr. Scott referred the matter to Mr. Kitson and telephoned me this afternoon to say that the matter was being looked into urgently in their Personnel Department and that the F.0. suggested that the reply to the P.Q. might include a statement to the effect that H.M.G. have accepted in principle the Governor's recommendation that an Adviser on the Colonies external relations should be appointed and steps are now under consideration to implement that recommendation For draft reply submitted see file 54144/43/P.Q.1).

I told Mr. Scott of the personal interest which the Secretary of State is taking in this appointment

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