TNAG-0128-FCO40-164-Development-aid-1969 — Page 49

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telecommunications capability at Kai Tak Airport

until we see the outcome of the main request for

a loan of which apparently it forms part. I do

not mean that we are turning the request down:

far from it. We hope by one means or another to

be of assistance. But it would complicate matte

at this stage to handle the request for what it

haw

is, a distinet application specifically for

Colonial Development and Welfare funds.

5.

It would not be difficult to build up the

distinction between what I have said in this

letter and the last lines of paragraph 2. of the

Despatch into a real difference. No such diffe-

rence is there, of course, but it would certainl

have been better had this letter accompanied you

copy of the Despatch rather than followed it. I

am sorry that it did not.

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