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SECRETARY OF STATE'S VIBIT TO CHINA:
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I attach a memorandum setting out the main points made at
the preparatory meeting which Mr Evans held on 19 July.
2. I should be grateful for authority for planning for the
Secretary of State's visit to be carried forward on the basis
set out below. (The headings refer to the corresponding
passages in the memorandum, which I have summarised):
A.
DATES
3. The Secretary of State should aim to spend 4 full days in
China and a night and the best part of a full day in Hong Kong
on his way back. This would mean an absence of 8 days, leaving
London on the afternoon of Friday 27 October and returning on
Saturday, 4 November.
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MEANS OF TRANSPORT/ROUTES
4.
The Secretary of State should fly Westabout by RAF VC 10
on both outward and return journeys.
the route might be London Airport
Aleutians) - Shanghai/Peking.
On the outward journey
Elmendorf Shemya (West
The homeward route might be
Peking Hong Kong Gan Akrotiri - UK (?Prestwick).
C.
5.
COMPOSITION OF THE PARTY
The Secretary of State and Lady Douglas-Home, the PUS,
Mr Wilford, Mr Graham, Mr Leahy, 2 PA's and possibly 14 others (see C. of the memorandum).
D.
ACCOMMODATION
6. The Secretary of State should stay in an official Chinese
The Private Office should also be
Government guesthouse.
established there.
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