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DRAFT Letter
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From
To:-
Sir David Trench, GCMG, MC HONG KONG.
Sir L.
Monson
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
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Many thanks for your letter of 27 January about
a successor to Cowperthwaite as Financial Secretary
which I found waiting for me on my return from Fiji.
I note that Cowperthwaite has now agreed to stay on
until after the 1971 budget session and that your firm
recommendation for his successor is Haddon-Cave.
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that this is
This
I am
agree also
Haddon Cave's
that it would be best that the announcement of his
future appointment should be made in the autumn, and in
any case before he attends the period of attachment to
the Treasury and the Bank of England which we hope to
organise. In these circumstances it would seem best
that we should give you formal approval of the appoint-
late ment in at August. Your announcement could then be
made in mid-September.
I confirm that I have every-
thing which I need from you and that no formal submission
is required.
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As regards Haddon-Cave's attachment to the
Treasury and the Bank of England I shall take this
Dev
you know how matters matter up forthwith and I shall see that you get copies
develop
of the correspondence.
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