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prisoners in Hong Kong or even better, an amnesty, would register with the Chinese and would be taken as a significant step on our part to improve relations. But a proposal to release prisoners inside China would, I am afraid, be only counter-productive.

Lifipleyad.

(L. V. Appleyard)

13 February, 1970