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Mr. Brien (Financial Policy & Aid Dept., G 65C/2)
2.
Thank you for your minute of 25 August.
We have not been in any haste to reply because as you probably surmisel, we were not so much thinking of particular technical assistance schemes which ODM have turned down, and which we still wish to promote, as thinking of the general bias in ODM against tech- nical assistance for this comparatively wealthy ter- ritory, should any scheme come up in the future.
3. However, in case you have not seen the letter before you might care to look at (19) on this file. In paragraph 3 is the evidence that it is not only capital aid but also technical assistance which ODM would like to eliminate. In fact they are unwilling even to finance a visit by an adviser to a territory not poor enough to merit their help. The particular question in issue when (19) was written was, so far as we were concerned, a visit by the ODM Adviser on Social Welfare to Hong Kong. Since then the Colony have asked us to find the man to advise on the improvement of their public assistance arrangements, and this is being arranged. Hong Kong have not actually asked for technical assistance and probably intend to meet all the costs themselves. But this is an example, we think, of ODM's rather short-sighted doctrine.
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