TNAG-0142-FCO40-178-Long-term-policy-on-International-trade-in-textiles-1969 — Page 52

FCO40 Hong Kong Department Records 聯邦事務部香港部檔案 All

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENT LAL

Registry

DRAFT

No. HKK 6/31

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION

Top Secret.

Secret.

Confidential. Restricted. Unclassified.

PRIVACY MARKING

In Confidence

To:-

LETTER

P. W. Carey, Esq.,

Ministry of Technology.

Type 1 +

From

Mr. Wilford

Telephone No. & Ext.

Department

Copy to:

Mr. Gallagher

J

Ве

This letter, which I will ask you to keep off

the record, starts with the assumption that when you

(from guera

received your copy of Derek Jones'/letter/of

(GVA 3/5)

19 November/to Shaun Stewart (broadly on the subject

of Hong Kong's versus the UKM) your sentiments

were much the same as my own!

Although I admit that

I did not give this screed the detailed attention

which it may deserve I road enough

to come to

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 so 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.

I realize that to the extent that this

of

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 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 worthwhile to tell you so.

/ Of course

(118281) Dd. 391599 1,500M 2/69 Hw.

NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN In this MARGIN

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