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Your telegram No. 594: Kai Tak Runway Extension.
Personal for Governor from Sir L. Monson.
While the first sentence of paragraph 2 of your
telegram under reference sets out the formal position
it ignores the many discussions which have been held
about this matter both with officials and with
Ministers in the past. You will realise that the
previous Secretary of State's undertaking given at
his meeting with UMELCO members in Hong Kong on
19 April that H.M.G. would look at the matter again cannot bind his succeswed next year (1971) is/nu.
Whic
Nevertheless the new
Government will, I am sure, be prepared to look
it would have libe
sympathetically at the matterjin the context of the
overall financial position of the country which they have found
find on assuming office. They will not, however,
wish to consider Kai Tak in isolation. It would
therefore be quite wrong of me to give you any
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