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must take account of the constitutional position

will be unwelcome and that difficult as the

present situation is it is better to proceed wit

out written rules. There remains the question of what is to be said to the T.A.B. and quite

frankly I find it very difficult to believe that

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we have any choice either reiterating what

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Jordan told them, which is reporting in your

telegram No. 661 (paragraph 3) and producing

Setting our the formal position

a formulă (which will be even more unpopular with them than it is with you.

5. As regards (c) it is our hope that the

strength of the Hong Kong position will be so

ppouble exposed by Jordan and the extent of damage to

Hong Kong made so clear that the conclusion will

emerge that Kong Kong must be permitted to extend

its restraint agreements at least for another

year.

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