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Thank you for your letter about this subject IDA/18A/Flb(Air) of
I am sorry not to have replied sooner, but we have several departments here and you will have realised
point about sketch estimates mentioned in your already been taken up in separate correspondence
my letter to Dawson of $10e (Air), DD.4/8/1 of
11 September. had to consult that the urgent paragraph 9 has with Sloe (Air) 25 September.
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The three countries still at issue are, of course, Brunei, Australia and Hong Kong. So far as Brunei is concerned (your paragraph 8) we agree to notify the Brunei Government as you request. Clearly, however, in making this notification, we will need to explain both the principle underlying the charges and their size. I would be grateful if you could let me have this explanation in a form suitable for passing on to the Brunei Government. In paragraph 4 of my letter of 25 September to Dawson, referred to above, I asked for an explanation of how the figures for these charges had been arrived at, so I imagine that you may already have the material for this already to hand.
3. Se are also, albeit most reluctantly, prepared to agree to the proposal in paragraph 4 of your letter under reference, and will accordingly take steps in about mid-1968 to notify the Australians that if they should wish to have further QFle after mid-1969, the new charges would apply to the replacements. Here again, however, we will need to give the Australian authorities a justification for the charges in principle and for the scale at which it is proposed that they should be raised.
4. As for the case of Hong Kong, I am sorry to say that we are not happy with the arguments you have put forward for raising these charges. Your lettor of 11 September emphasized the services which the pilots perform for Hong Kong, but you did not say to what extent their services may be useful to H.M.G. It is hard to see how they can be of no direct or contingency use whatever to H.M.G., and if they are to some extent useful to H.M.G., then at least we should surely abate the amortized training charge to that extent? (67)37 5.
I enclose a copy of a Memorandum to the Ministerial Committee on Hong Kong by our Secretary of State. Although I have not enclosed the Annex to this Momorandum, I think it will be clear from the Memorandum itself how anxious we are at present to show
T. J. Brack, Ecq.,
Ministry of Defence Flb(Air), Main Building,
Whitehall, S.W.1.
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