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CONFIDENTIAL

I hope you will see from this that we are not

contemplating a major wide-ranging exercise which

would undermine confidence in Hong Kong.

We are

simply interested in examining with some urgency the

possibility of a small

unobtrusive gesture which

would be at no cost to ourselves and would not

inflame public opinion in Hong Kong.

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