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Mr. Carter (Hong Kong Dept)
Request by Hong Kong for General Political and Economic Information
As it stands I am afraid the draft does not cover the difficulty seen in my minute of 7 July.
2. I feel that we must remind High Commissioners about the restrictions on passing comment by one Commonwealth country about another to a third. An instruction about DiplomaticReports covering this, and allowing some controlled relaxation, was recently agreed throughout the Office and is shortly to be issued as a section of D.S.P. The draft is attached below (see paragraphs 5 and 10 at Flag A). I have suggested a couple of paragraphs for insertion in your draft circular letter. At first sight they may seem to cut down drastically on the possible flow from High Commissioners, but I would hope that in practice this would not be so.
Sorry for the delay in commenting.
Barry Sualla
(B. G. Smallman)
Commonwealth Co-ordination Department
7 November, 1969.
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Mr. Carter
I do think it would be advisable, in writing
to our Delegation to OECD, to take account of their special function and the specialist nature of most of their reporting. I think, therefore, that the letter to Sir John Chadwick should be the same as your existing draft, down to "z" on the third page. It might then read on as in the draft which I have attached. I leave it to you whether you take up the suggestion in paragraph 4 of my minute of 16 June, and ask Hong Kong whether they have made arrangements to receive the OECD publications which may interest them.
froposed by N.. Butten for
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In Duker
(R. G. Britten)
Trade Policy Department
26 November 1969
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