TNAG-0108-FCO40-144-Briefs-for-Members-of-Parliament-visiting-Hong-Kong-1969 — Page 128

FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

Registry No.

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential.

Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

LETTER

DRAFT

Type 1 +

To:-

From

His Excellency

Telephone No. & Ext.

Mr. M.D.I. Gass, CMG.,

Acting Governor,

Hong Kong

Department

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

W(BL 51-7433

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am sure it world appreciated of you

could Awange See him during

his stay.

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You will be receiving from another source

notification of a private visit that Mr. Julian

Amery is to pay to the Far East in November.

I attach a copy of his itinerary. You will

note that he is to visit Hong Kong twice,

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between 6 8 November and 26 28 November.

I understand that he will, on both occasions,

be staying with Harold Lee.

He came to the Office yesterday for a

briefing session with James Murray and myself,

and we spent about twenty minutes talking about

Hong Kong. We discussed the usual things and There is no need for me to recount what parsed. made the usual noises that we do at such-

briefing sessions. But I think I should

mention that he asked particularly for the name

of the Head of Special Branch, obviously

intending to make some contact with him. In

"And, I suggest, Steven') this connection you ought to know that Mr. Amery hopes to

"succeed" to the parliamentary seat of

Sir William Teeling in Brighton and is

apparently taking over Sir William's role as

spokesman for the Taiwan lobby in Westminster.

We believe that his trip is being financed by

they financed the Taiwan authorities as/Sir William

Teeling's regular visits to that part of the

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world were financed.

is to be spent in

The mayer part of his time

alwan

You probably met Mr. Amery when you were

in the Pacific and he was a Colonial Office

area!

Minister with responsibilities in that area will no doubt wester

I have no doubt that you will find it useful to renew acquaintance, Shind

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