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BRITISH EMBASSY,

COPENHAGEN.

9 March 1971

E O Laird Esq CMG MBE Hong Kong Department

Foreign & Commonwealth Office London SW1

RECEIVED IN REGISTRY N.51

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HICK

HILILIES

Des Laird,

1.

I should be most grateful for your help in putting me in touch with UK leading experts in the fields of:

traffic control;

police administration; technical education.

2. My object is to get their advice on what I could usefully see in the United Kingdom that would give me an idea of how these problems are being tackled, and then secondly of where in the world good work is being done in circumstances most comparable to Hong Kong.

3. With regard to the second point, for instance, I should have thought that for traffic control some Japanese cities would be highly relevant, and that for police organisation Singapore would probably be a place to look at, though it would also be useful to see something being done in territory without a British background. With regard to technical education I have been told that Israel and West Africa lead the field, but whether this is true or not I don't know. My object at this stage is simply to locate the experts and put questions to them and I can then plan a tour afterwards.

You will have seen what my general plan of action is from my letter to Leslie Monson of 5 March.

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Since time is getting short, if this is not clear please ring me up (Copenhagen Tria 6360).

Yous

C M MacLehose

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