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His Excellency
Sir David Trench, G.C.N.G.
Hong Kong.
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Sir L. Mons on
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Many thanks for your letter of 12 August about
Haddon-Cave's selection to be John Cowperthwaite's
successor as Financial Secretary, the change to take
place about April 1971. You were right in assuming
that FCO Saving despatch No.284 was a follow-up to
our earlier correspondence and was in essence the
formal acceptance which in my letter of 18 February
I promised to send you about this time so that
the way would be open to you to put out an appropriate
announcement. But I did, before authorising the
despatch of the Savingram confirm that the appointment
was acceptable to the new Administration here as it had bum
e to their predecessors.
I note that you are not reconsidering your
recommendation. You yourself made the point in your
letter of 27 January that it would not be fair to
Haddon-Cave to come to London for his attachment to
the Bank of England and other Departments without it
having been announced publicly that he is to succeed
John Cowperthwaite. All those whom he will be seeing
will know that this was the plan and that this is why
he is in London. In these circumstances Haddon-Cave
himself would be paced in a most embarrassing situation
if no announcement had been made previously and even
if he himself said nothing the odds are that the news
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