WIB'L 51-7433
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CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT B
Registry
No. HWB 21/5
DRAFT LETTER
Type 1 +
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
To:-
From
Top Secret
RexrLXX
Confidential.
Reskiatedx Unclassifiedy
PRIVACY MARKING
Copy to:
C.C. Lucas, Esq.,
H.. Treasury
together with a copy of Lord
Shepherd's letter of 31 July and of Lord Brown's letter
of 27 August.
In Confidence
The Lord Brown, MBE.,
Board of Trade
Lord Shepherd
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
I am sorry not to have replied earlier to
your letter of 27 August about the Hong Kong
Tunnel; this is due to my absence on holiday.
It seems to me a great pity that it should
be considered necessary to take special cover
against a political risk in this case. You
will have seen the opinion of our legal
advisers about access to Hong Kong assets in the
United Kingdom, as communicated to E.C.G.D.
Without a Hong Kong Government guarantee
(of which there can now, I am sure, be no
possibility) there seems no way of providing
the right of access E.C.G.D. is looking for.
I regret that there is nothing we can do to
help in this respect.
No comments yet.
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