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From

Mr.Curson

47/2/1

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

IPD

Problem. The influential Far Eastern Economic

Review, published in Hong Kong, is planning to issue a supplement on September 25 on Britain in Asia, which will examine the current period of transition

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to a promising economic and business partnership. They have asked, through the High Commission,

whether a senior British Cabinet Minister

(preferably the Prime Minister, the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, the President of the Board of Trade, or the Minister of Defence) would

contribute a 600-word introduction, outlining

the

Britain's role in / region, to the supplement.

An Trader Cancuisiner

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The High Commission (Hong Kong telegram No.1325)

strongly support this request. They state that

similar supplements on Australia, Canada and India

have received contributions from the Prime Ministers

of those countries.

Recommendation.

That the request is important and that,

enough to put to the Prime Minister;

failing his agreement, we should submit it to

Mr. Crosland..

Argument.

The Review is probably the most

influential English-language weekly publication

in the Far' East and South East Asia.

It has a

/circulation