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No. HKK 21/11
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„In Confidence
DRAFT letter
To:-
C. C. Lucas, Esq.,
Treasury Chambers,
Great George Street,
London, S.W.1.
27 Type 1+6
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W. S. Carter
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Copies to:
D. C. Smith, Esq., Board of Trade.
C. C. Ricketts,
ODM
J. Gill, Esq., E.C.G.D.
RHJ Steel, Esq.,
Treasury.
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Thank you for my copy of your letter of
3 July to Gill about Hong Kong Airport.
The
I hasten to remind you that Hong Kong's
case hinges on the extent of, UK civil aviation
interest in Kai Tak. If you will look back at
the memorandum I submitted to the Treasury in
February you will see the first attempt at
quantifying this made by the Board of Trade in
paragraphs 14-20. It is admittedly not easy to
measure our advantage from Kai Tak with such
precision that the figure is unassailable but
I had thought that by now it was not in dispute
that we derived considerable benefits. What we
are looking for surely are ways and means of
recognising the fact. It was for this reason
that I did not dwell on the self interest element
in the proposed package deal although I did refer
briefly to this in my second paragraph.
In other words it is we who should be look-
ing for an appropriate quid pro quo and I cannot
conceive that the cost to H.M.G. of supplying the
three ingredients of the package listed in my
paragraph 8 will be out of balance (to our dis- advantage that is) with the value of Hong Kong
Airport to us.
W(B)L 51-7433
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