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CONFIDENTIAL

and the improvement of social legislation depend in the last resort in Hong Kong continuing to expand its earnings from industrial exports sufficiently to give employment to an ever increasing labour force - a very substantial proportion of the population are still under 21. Consequently we in the FCO could not remain indifferent to the erection of barriers in the way

of Hong Kong's export trade.

cc.

Mr. Gallagher Mr. Laird

Mr. Heath

(L. Monson) 26 May, 1970