TNAG-0339-FCO40-375-Aid-to-Hong-Kong-from-UK-1972 — Page 60

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Mr Wilford

Sir L-Monson--

AID TO HONG KONG

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I'm in light of my

hof 6.3

1. I have now received the letter the Governor promised to

send on the understanding he had reached with the Secretary

of State about aid.

2.

draft.

I propose to reply to the Governor as in the attached

E O Laird

Hong Kong Department

1 March 1972

While foo

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not discent from the thought

in

the last two sentences of Mi Laird's

draft

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question

the wisdom of appearing

to say

no-dice before

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requent.

Mr Wilford

While I

Sir Leslie Monson has discussed this submission with me. entirely take your point that we should not appear to be too discouraging to the Governor, I think that we ought to put him in the picture as fully as possible.

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I assume that you will be making this at the FCO Aid Committee meeting tomorrow. Perhaps thereafter we could concert a revised final paragraph to the draft letter.

2 March 1972

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