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the process by which policies and decisions are

formed in Hong Kong. These are the people into whom

we have to instil some sense of reality. I attach

as Annex 'B' a piece that, if substituted for

paragraph 8 in the talking points for use with

the public, would serve the purpose for this more

knowledgeable gathering.

4.

Finally, talking points for use with the

Governor and Officials. The general points

suice provide a satisfactory introduction, on the assump

tion that by the time you arrive in Hong Kong the

Governor will have been fully-informed about the

visits to the Community capitals. (This latter

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point we have checked with Western Economic Dept. are foot sending the Governor the information

and understand that a full account is being telepams that went to Ambassadors & High Canausscories sumarausing

prépared and will issue shortly) But we feel some

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concern that the special Hong Kong points as

drafted should be so narrow in scope, concentrating

as they do on cotton textiles. We have re-drafted

this section (Annex 'C') to make the points about

(a) the virtual certainty that Hong Kong would have

to compete in Britain over the Common External

Tariff, and (b) the dangers if an E.E.C. common

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commercial policy were to follow a restrictionist

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line.

8.

There is one point about the

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