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Mr..

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Mr...

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Parly. U.S. of S.

Mr..

Minister of State

Sir

A. Galsworthy

Secretary of State

Your Reference........

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DRAFT LETTER

Sir David Trench, KCMG,

MC,

Government House,

Victoria,

Hong Kong.

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Arthur Sulswarthy tello

me that when he was

in Hay Kong to at the

end of

the

Last year was able to have a

brief word with you

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your

Letter just & have Seeius sunk without trace so that in hand to

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hom you.

FURTHER ACTION

Recirc to H.607.

reasons

And finally, for a variety of it has stilt mainl connected with that uncertainties stemming hour The Defence Review, it has still not been

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I greatly regret that you have not been so this appalling delay in sending you a poeeived an earliér reply to your letter

of the 6 September about the possibility of a

visit by Her Majesty The Queen to Hong Kong

whether the Queen in 1968, but firm decisions about the tour shared undertake a to South East Asia in 1968.

have still to be reached. -I am sorry te

say, however, that for reasons of security

we have come to the conclusion that Hong Kong

should not be included.

Briefly, a decision about a visit to

S. E. Asia will depend on the reactions in

Malaysia and Singapore to Mr. Healey's current

visit to discuss the Defence Review.

There are

also doubts about the wisdom of inviting some

of the other countries in the area during the

present period of uncertainty and what the

reactions would be if one was included and

another omitted.

1.

Again if a tour is arranged for 1968 it is

likely to take place in late January or early

February, which would not fit in with the dates

for the opening of the Plover Cove Water Supply

Scheme anyway.

I am sorry about this but in the present

situation in S. E. Asia in the Far East I do

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