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Mr. Gaminara, Hong Kong and West India Department.
We spoke on Friday about Nigel Watt's letter to
I shall be John Peck, a copy of which is attached. sending shortly an interim reply on the part of John Peck and would be grateful if you could let me have any special comments by telephone.
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I have discussed the letter with Miss Stowe in JIPGD and these are our conclusions:
Paragraph 2. It would appear that Mr. Watt does not want a replacement for Mr. Rivett-Carnac when he leaves in December. He would, however, like some assistance in May next year and has suggested that Mr. Ellis of your News Department should be seconded to Hong Kong for this purpose. No doubt you will have views on this subject.
Paragraph 3.
Details
are now being worked out direct with Hong Kong and I will be able to let you have some more information in a few days time.
Paragraph 4.
JIPGD is receiving this material
from the Hong Kong office in London. I do not think that we need to worry too much about duplica- tion of effort since our resources in most areas are pretty thin on the ground. Duplication provides much needed re-emphasis.
Paragraph 5. In the end the decision on sponsored tours rests with Hong Kong since they will have to suit the bill. Clearly the experience in the past has not been happy and a lot depends on local handling in such cases. Hong Kong's special problems (the constitutional, social and labour situation) do not make handling very easy of diffi- cult and articulate correspondents.
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