TNAG-0331-FCO40-367-Visits-of-Secretary-of-State-for-Foreign-and-Commonwealth-Af-1972 — Page 34

CONFIDENT IAL

Hong Kong has to operate restraints in its trade with other

countries, a vast and profitable market still lies open to you.

And if the continued expansion of your exports requires a

conscious process of diversification, as I believe it does, I

am confident that Hong Kong will meet this challenge with the

enterprise, ingenuity and the success for which it is famed.

15. Let me say again how glad my wife and I are to have had

this all too short opportunity of visiting you and of meeting

those responsible for the direction of your affairs. Even in

this brief visit I am seeing for myself a little of the

development and beauty of Hong Kong.

will refresh me to do everything I can for you at home. I

wish you all every success and prosperity in the new year.

This personal contact

5.

CONFIDENTIAL