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CONFIDENTIAL

no publicity for a period of 10 to 15 days

after à visit. I do not think that we should

seek at the moment to renegotiate the relevent

guidelines since this is bound to be a long and

complicated procedure.

9. The Embassy in Washington have suggested

that we should make such an approach in London

rather than, as we usually do, in Washington.

They argue that

change of appreneh would

be tactically wise. The objection to

adopting this procedure is that the U.S. Embassy

here will not be briefed about all the details

of these visits and, in any case, our

Embassy's usual contacts in the State Department

and Washington would take it up with them.

I think therefore that we should instruct

Washington to take action there. If necessary,

we can follow it up here.

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10. In January the Secretary of State

minuted that he would like to be kept informed

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about visit to Hong Kong from time to time.

You may therefore wish this submission to be

shown to him or Mr. Rodgers.