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grateful for clarification.
4. If we are to give any practical effect to consideration in paragraph 1 of your telegram it seems to me that we should at the very least seek to reduce visits of large or nuclear vessels to one month and keep nuclear visits to no higher than last year's level ( which would mean no more nuclear visits this year).
5. As regards " Enterprise" (paragraph 2(c) of your telegram), I recommend that we take the bull by the horns and inform the Americans that we should prefer no more visits for the time being. The ship's size, nuclear quality, association with Viet Nam, North Korea (Pueblo) and demonstrations in Japan make its visits highly inflammable. its visits to Hong Kong have always provoked a protest here even In paimy days of 1965. We are asking for trouble if we let it come again.
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Sir. D. Hopson.
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