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H.K TUNNEL: ECGD'S LATEST LETTER

Sir Arthur Saliworking's letter Le Sur Authony Percical hai certainly acimiied

the most obficliónable

the withdrawal of

of an ECGD conditions

viz that

The H.K.

Sout should undistiki ́to keep

a minimi

balina un tonden (ie condition (C)). This

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tivc

conditions

the only comission EQGD have made,

As regardi ile oller

we objected, I think possibly (b) is reasonabli (ie that ECGD home lie

H.K Goil's account is

to whnin

pursue of the

might to removed from the Craven Agenti)(or

I think (a)

ECGD cau cail in

1.2.

difemit aí- AL

act

Wat

- BUT

whole mi event of any

14 ding point - ignotes

H.K while.

the arguments that fir Arllum put to the effect

is quarantiiing dis debet is a Crown Colony and that HMG

standi balind H.K.

I see

little presplit,

however, of persuading ECGD to comechi the dropping of this condition

3.

My detailed commenti on Sir Anthony's litter, paragraph by paragraph, are: -

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significance in relation to the Subsequent arguments in the Weller, of are distinction betiven ECG.D'S position and Treasing positión

(ii) Pana 3

We can agree that th discussion on 27/10/67 was not intended

in detail the propesed loc + ECG D ajstiment, but ball. Treaility

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∙representatives were fully aware of

What we were trying Hong Kong. The subsequent conditions menisômed in the ECGD letter of 1/4/67 au fimdamental ones which would vitally have affected all our altituder If they were made known at the meeting

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