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Letter
To:-
E. H. Gwynn, Esq., CB. Minister of Defence.
Type 1 +
From
Sir Leslie Monson
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
c.c. R. Gedling FSQ. Treasury Chambers, Qt. George
S.
Thank you for replying so promptly in your letter
153/1 of December to my letter of 11 December about
the Hong Kong defence contribution.
2.
To deal first with the points raised in your
paragraph 3:
(a) I think that this point can most easily be
met by the substitution of the words "was presen-
ted in Hong Kong" for the words "being expressed".
are
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(b) and (c) agreed.
3. As regards the draft enclosed with your letter,
before I deal with one or two points of detail, I would
EH.A. Stretton ESQ like to make the general comment that the arguments in
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the draft depend to a considerable degree on the fact
that you now contemplate a capital works programme
which envisages an increase in expenditure of more
than 44% over that involved in the programme previously
planned, despite a reduction of one major unit in the
strength of the garrison since the earlier programme
was drawn up. Moreover, it is clear from your para-
graph 4 that you do not yet know whether your proposals
will receive Treasury support. We should be interested
to know what the Treasury view is on this aspect.
4.
We have the further following comments on points
of detail arising out of your draft:
Paragraph 2: We feel that so far as our approach
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