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Mr.
From Wilford
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His Excellency
Sir David Trench, GCMG,
HONG KONG
MC,
Department
..In Confidence
(C), Suggest
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I am sorry that my first weeks in the F.C.0.
with responsibility for Hong Kong affairs has
been marked by the sharp differences which there
have been between Hong Kong and Whitehall on
regotiations with
the question of your textile exports to Canada.
Speaking as one who was not concerned with the
Gay
exchanges in June I must at that it seems to
me that there have been faults on both sides
which we should seek to eliminate for the
future.
Thus I entirely understand your
irritation at the fact that you never received
any answer to your telegram No. 463 of 7 June
when, as you rightly say in your telegram
No. 638 of 13 August, you "clearly envisaged
consultations on cottons and non-cottons,
Snelling is away on leave so I cannot consult him about what he said (paragraph 3 of your telegram No. 639) but in the recollection of all those concerned whom I have been able to consult there is little doubt that Jordan ought to have been clear that because of wider considerations the Board of Trade expected to be consulted fully in advance of any
Cas happened) negotiations such as the Swedish- and now the Canadian - which involved the making of voluntary
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causes for
restraint agreements in non-cotton items. the whole purport of these discussions seems to have
being cometh I alive) indicated HMG's interest the extension of voluntary
(such extension restraints and the difficulties which this the Board of Trade. However, I have expressed to the Board of Trade my own view which is that if any important statement was made to Jordan while he was in London to this effect the least we could have done was to have informed you in writing that it had been
made.
Be that as it may
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