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PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
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SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
To:
His Excellency
Sir David Trench, GCMG, MC,
Secret.
Confidential.
Government House,
Hong Kong.
Restricted. Unclassified.
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In Confidence
Secretary of State
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I have therefore thought it Hong Kong. proper personally to let you know my thinking on this aspect of my responsibilities.
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First lot me say that I and my colleagues are full of admiration for the way Hong Kong under you and your predecessors has tackled the difficulties of the last two decades. It is an achievement of tremendous scale : too little attention has prhaps been paid to it here and too little credit given for it to Hong Kong and its people. You can rely on me and my colleagues in this office to take any opportunity that offers to put
the record straight.
3. I know of course that one consequence
of the transformation of Hong Kong from a trading to a manufacturing centre has inevitably been an increase in the number of situations where there may be a clash between the interests of Hong Kong and the domestic
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