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to take account of some of the criticisms
(which we realise are based purely on
hair hear <principle) levelled at them by such bodies as
As you
the Hong Kong Bar Association.
probably know one of these criticisms concerns
the absence of any provision requiring a
detainee to be informed of the reasons for
his detention. We know you do this in practice. If (as we are at present advised) other Colonial Emergency legislation
unced you curseder specifically provides for this, # zoudú norm Whether you could,
follow suit?
agres that spis
peview wild not be carried out now, but at
the time when it becomes possible to put tre
regulationsback on the shelf in readiness f
the next emergency!
I have been follairing recent deulipments or
have biond the with some fascination
Tunnel although naturally there nave been-e-
number of developments since you wrote.
French intervention, no more benevolent
than you would expect it to be, may at least serve the purpose of bringing matters to a
This nud jada, toptha with head.
opt
your political
ecrabled us & the Board of Trade argumentsamony others, to induce ECGD to have another look at their terms, hien Ford Shepherd did as you know nearly a month ago) we are not making the running here; the
Board of Trđe
It is our understanding
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that the French have not decided what their
terms are going to be the latest rather unwelcome information was that they would not
do so before March but there are indications
that they are prepared to be more generous in some directions (guarantees, as you instance) than we are; although less so in others,
notably interest rates. We know no more about the American and Swiss offers of finance than
the bare indications Clague has given to
Hannam. British finance ought to have the
edge on them all and we all hope that it will. The revised ECGD terms as they now stand (after
clarification in recent exchanges of the manner in which the guarantees will operate) seem to us «ily reasonable/and we hope that, given the advantage to the Tunnel Company of being able to take up with Costains where they left off last year, they will carry the day.
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