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I think, however, that Jordan put the position

well in talking to the Textile Advisory Board as

reported in your telegram No. 661.

This can be

more fully discussed when your representative

comes here (as suggested in the last paragraph of

your telegram No. 659).

7.

I have written at length to explain that we

have looked as sympathetically as we could upon

your situation and we hope that by the time that

Ministers have come to decisions these may yet

permit the extension and negotiation of restraint

agreements as you would like. We shall do our

best to see that this happens, but we cannot

But the lessons

guarantee that we shall succeed.

remain; for us in Whitehall that if we make

(varying prewing policy statements of principle to visiting officers from

Hong Kong they should be repeated in communications

to you (of course, we accept that we cannot give

instructions to your officers); for the Government

of Hong Kong that H.M.G. must retain some freedom

to direct, and, if necessary, to restrain the

Government of Hong Kong in matters of

international trade and that for this reason

alone there is every need for full consultation

on all steps which you may be contemplating in

this field.

Mr. 22.

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