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purpose trying to impose particular solutions on

you. But what does concern me is the very small

number of top-class financial advisers on whom you

have to rely. Haddon-Cave cannot do everything.

I would like to be able to offer you both the best

financial advice available to us, and people to

help carry it into effect.

3. I would therefore like to propose that the Vulks

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leave, you should come

here for talks with our financial experts, with a

view to considering whether we might send some

top class people to Hong Kong in the autumn, to

help Haddon-Cave get over this hump. It will not

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be easy to choose the right people. They will

have to be first class professionals but

politically aware. This suggests a team of more

than one, including, perhaps, somebody from the

Bank, with FCO strengthening from either the

economic or political departments or both. But

again this is something we would like to discuss

with you.

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4. You are coming here for talks in mid-September,

and it may

be that that will be the Rest time to ever

but I think we may need to clear our minds on this

these questions

a bit earlier.

I do not want to interrupt your

hard earned Scottish holiday, but perhaps you

could let the department know whether a short

born after 29 August

visit perhaps in middle or late August would be

ed) possible for you if it seems desirable nearer the

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elf,

time? I might then be away from London myself

but if you could spare the time to come on to

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