of timing for the Commonwealth Caribbean with respect to the uncertainties on sugar and on the negotiation of Yaounde III. However I detected a certain willingness on his part to accept that if in the event the timing problem remained per1975 approached it would perhaps be possible to review the question of abolition by 1975 as that date approached.
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As regards Hong Kong Cronk indicated that a decision by Japan might be critical. If both the Community and Japan included Hong Kong on some restrictive basis then the recommendation was that the should do approximately the same. If however Japan in the event failed to bring in Hong Kong he regarded it as out of the realms of reasonable expectation that the U.S. could do otherwise than follow the Japanese. Cronk asked to be told as soon as we had any authoritative indication of the treatment Japan would accord to Hong Kong. I gained theimpression however that the possibility (mentioned in my letter of 1 May) that a decision on Hong Kong might be deferred until after the bill has been published remained a real one.
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As you will realise this is by way of interim reply to your letter and it may well be overtaken by telegram before you receive it.
You's ever, Ben
B. W. Meynell
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