(HKK 6/31)
PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL
PA
1. Stewart-
Mir
3/1
дерб
2/12
2 December, 1969.
This letter, which I will ask you to keep off the record, starts with the assumption that when you received your copy of Derek Jones' letter from Geneva of 19 November (CVA/3/5) to Shaun Stewart (on the subject of Hong Kong's textile trade with the U.K.) your sentiments were much the same as my own! I reached the conclusion that it was part of a rather tedious, and what is more unnecessary, argument. Feelings on both sides may not be 30 hard as some would conclude from the tone of the correspondence. Nevertheless I decided that the best contribution I could make would be to try to bring it to a close.
2. I realise that to the extent that this correspondence purports to be personal and unofficial (to say nothing of the fact that Derek Jones is a servant of the Hong Kong Government and not of this office) I am not in a position to write to him with the simple message that "this correspondence will now cease". However, I am reasonably confident that action taken by Hong Kong Department will bring about that result, and I thought it worth- while to tell you 80.
3. Of course I cannot be sure that you will share my views: but I hope you will. In any case, being unable to guarantee that I shall succeed in silencing Hong Kong I cannot ask you to guarantee anything on your side. I shall try to get my man not to enter the ring again. It is entirely up to you whether you make my task easier by trying to do something of the sort in your Ministry's corner.
4. I have told Ken Gallagher that I am writing to you in these terms and he agrees that it would be for the best to put an end to this increasingly acrimonious correspondence.
P.W. Carey, Esq.,
Ministry of Technology,
1, Victoria Street,
S.W.1.
(K. . Wilford)
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