TNAG-0011-FCO40-47-Kowloon-disturbances-1967 — Page 84

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IN CONFIDENCE

Personal and Administrative Considerations.

To stay would cause me some personal difficulties, and I think I must let my family go on the due date as planned. Delay would also upset administrative postings, etc., but this can be overcome.

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On balance, and in the light of the situation as it now is, I believe I should decide to stay on for a week or two (and announce this intention) to see how the immediate crisis develops. If the situation has not by then simmered down reasonably into some kind of lull, I would stay on in the hope of being able to get away at some suitable opportunity; but in the end I fear a time would come when I would have to fix a date a month or so ahead (since I have to make leave accommodation arrangements), perhaps after

I very 10th October, and go whatever the current situation. much fear that to delay any longer than that would be to risk being insufficiently up to my duties; and in this my medical advisers concur.

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Grateful for your views in time for me to inform Executive Council on Tuesday morning 13th June.

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Mr. Wilson

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Mr. Foggon

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