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PRIVACY MARKING
..In Confidence
J K Blackwell Esq CBE
Senior British Trade
Commissioner
HONG KONG
Mr E O Laird
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
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I am sorry that you have had to wait so long for a
reply to your letter of 11 December about defence
costs.
If you pick up any local views on the question of
the defence contribution, we should of course like to
have them; but for the reasons which I have explained
we do not wish you to make any effort to seek views
and if anybody else raises the issue with you we
still feel that it would be reasonable to reply that
this is not a matter of your concern.
As to the incident you mentioned, it must surely be
obvious to the expatriate member of the Urban Council
to whom you referred that our relations with the
Territ
Dependent Territories cannot be compared with our
relations with independent members of theCommonwealth,
much less foreign countries.
I have discussed your suggestion that your Information
Officer should be withdrawn (or at least his brief
restricted entirely to commercial matters) with both
Wilford and Brinson. We are all agreed that it
would be best to leave this point on one side until
your Post is next inspected. You will remember that
Wyatt wrote to you in this sense last September.
Inspectorate tell us that they are including Hong Kong
The
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