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1947
Type 1 +
From
Mr L.V.Appleyard
Telephone No. & Ext.
Registry No.
HKKI/12
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
Restricted.
Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
To be copied to:
J.N.Allan Esq.
Peking
DRAFT letter
To:-
C. J. Howells, Esq.,
Hong Kong
Confrontation Prisoners
Department
FED
AR 2412
Many thanks for your two letters of 14 July, and the
prompt despatch of the monthly table of releases which will
be extremely useful. We shall be very interested to see
the note on the sick prisoners as soon as this can possibly
emily
be sent. I assume that it will include i
information on
the prisoners about whom you will have heard through other
channels.
All hur. Stevenca.
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2.
We are incomplete agreement with you that a head-for-head
deal with the Chinese, trading sick prisoners against detained
British subjects, is quite out of the question. This is
certainly/not what we had in mind. Nor do we think that the
Chinese envisaged a barter of this kind either;
certainly
our exchanges have never indicated that this is what they are
seeking.
3. Our prime consideration in all this is of course to see
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would be noticed by to Chinen wit whether we can make a small gesture which will help in
securing the release of British subjects without at the same
time damaging our position in Hong Kong. A cardinal rule in
moves of this kind is that whatever we do in Hong Kong must
be justifiable within the Hong Kong context, and must not lead
local
to an adverse reaction from public opinion. It occurs to
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