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if consular officers accept communications from student or other groups and undertake to transmit them to the Hong Kong Government. It would be as well to avoid promising that the Hong Kong Government will take any action as a result! Our policy has in fact been to ignore (and thus not to answer) letters of protest which made vild allegations and base peremptory demands on them.

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If you think these arrangements are not suitable please let me know.

cc.

(A F Maddocks)

Viscount Dunrossil (Ottawa) A W Gaminara Esq CMG (HKD FCO)

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