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To: His Excellency
Sir David Trench,
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From
Sir L. Monson
GC MG, MC,
Telephone No. & Ext.
HONG KONG.
Department
In Confidence
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
which
I
my leter of the 18th February I formed to send
you
about this time
notê tit you are not recomvidang
recorum endeli
your You yourself road
made the four
in your
27 January
fari
letin of
that it would
to Haddon -Caux to
kum hiff
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On the other hand, of
The intention are was
know public knowledge,
his position
wat the
reception the world masens her during his here wormed be
Way
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
were right in assuming that
You
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place about April 1971. F.C.O. Saving despatch No.284 was a follow-up to our earlier correspondance and was inamaa
to which you refer constituted the formal acceptance
by the Secretary of State of your recommendation so that
announcement.
Al Hassed t
Commendation
the way would be open to you to put out an appropriate But I did before authorizing the dospelit of the Saingram
Frankly, it had not occurred to us comfoin this the appoutment was acaprible to hey Admenwration have that you would not have informed Haddon Cave of what was as it was to then fredecessors
in store for him.
Be that as it may I do not think,
as I said in my letter of 18 February, that Haddon Gave
shopid
should 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
This was the plan
London.
know that he is to do so, and that this is why he is in
In These circumstances.
I think Haddon Cave himself would be placed a most embarrann's
in an intolerable situation if no announcement had been
made previously and even if he himself said nothing
the odds are that the news would leak at some stage
during his stay.
ス
I therefore see every advantage in the announcement
being made either when Haddon Cave leaves for London
Can
or just before, and I trust that you will agree to this.
be wood
and Ang Kas would darwes from his stay
Wounger me the
value whef
Would be that
much
greater
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