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CPG

COVERING SECRET

Record

copy.

26 September, 1968.

M Gamifma

сто

81

We discussed the question of background briefing

for the Foreign Secretary on Hong Kong and Rhodesia,

I enclose a background note on Hong Kong which

we hope är, Stewart will find useful. It is, I fear,

rather long, but Hong Kong is perhaps the most sensitive

of our remaining colonial possessions and the handling

of its problems has a considerable bearing on our

defence commitments and our relations with China,

[J. R. WILLIAMS] Private Secretary

R. 205.

PA

on

internal

briefing ofte

file.

ANGE

30.9.

68.

D. M. Day, Esq.,

[Private Secretary to the Secretary of State]

Foreign Office,

Downing Street,

S.W.1.