HKK 21/4
From The Minister of State
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CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London S.W.1
26 February, 1969.
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Since our exchange of correspondence last month I have been following with close interest the develop- ments in the Hong Kong Cross Harbour Tunnel developments.
I am very relieved that, on reviewing the situation with ECCD, you felt able to relax the terms previously offered. But I fear that it is still too soon to be sure of the outcome of this matter. It is presumably no more inconceivable now than it was when you wrote your letter of 17 January that when the French do make up their mind they will, with whatever object, soften their terms; and there are reports how credible we do not yet know of American and Swiss offers.
In these circumstances, and because of the vital importance from our point of view of ensuring that, if the project does go ahead, it should do so as a British project, I have been considering whether there is anything further I could do to assist matters in the direction we all want. It
seems to me that there is one step I ought to take.
To ECGD I suppose the Hong Kong Government must be an interested party I am almost sure I have seen it so described in one or other of the papers our officials have been handling. No doubt this is a reasonable attitude for your Department to take when the Hong Kong Government is expecting to take up its share in the equity. But in this Office, of course we stand in quite a different relationship with the Governor, and I therefore propose to telegraph to
THE LORD BROWN. MBE.
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