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Sir L. Monson, Mr. Wilford and I attended a
meeting in the Ministry of Defence on 7 September
to consider the question of the Hong Kong defence
contribution in the light of the Governor's letter
of 7 July. The MOD have not seen a copy of that
letter; the gist of it was conveyed to them by
Sir L. Monson in his letter to Mr. Gwynn of 5
August.
2. The MOD record of the meeting is attached.
As Mr. Wilford has pointed out, the record tends to
concentrate on expressing the interests of the MOD
and the Treasury and it contains in fact only one
sentence which mentions the views of the FCO. A
brief history on this subject is given in the
attached note. (Paragraph 2 of the note is now
out of date in view of the virtual certainty that
the post-1971 Garrison in Hong Kong will remain at
its present strength of 63 major Army units:
Paragraph 7 of the note should be ignored).
Governor's letter of 7 July carries on the story
from the end of paragraph 6 of the note.
3.
now
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When considering this matter it may be helpful
to have before us the Memorandum of Understanding
accepted by HMG and the Hong Kong Government in
1966 which sets out the details of Hong Kong's
present defence contribution.
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