DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY
CHEMICALS & TEXTILES DIVISION Millbank Tower Millbank London SW1P 4QU Telex 918829 Telegrams Advantage London SW1
Mr W Dorward
Commerce and Industry Dept
Fire Brigade Building
Hong Kong
Telephone 01-834 4422 ext 737
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HKK6/3
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Date 22 August 1973
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Liz Lowme has asked me to thank you for your interesting letter of 8 August, and I hasten to assure you that there was nothing sinister in my remark
to Walter Pacht about the complexities of this subject. As far as I remember, I merely wanted to disabuse him of any idea he might have that one only has to take a decision to express things in one way or the other, and all problems then disappear.
But the important thing is the encouraging change in Commission attitudes. DG III study is welcome. If a small expert group is set up we shall be ready to contribute whatever we can.
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I share your dislike of the ideas which Friedrich has been expressing. Jack logic, consistency, practicality and (as you say) a sense of responsibility towards traders. Let us hope there are other parts of his grand design to which he attaches more importance.
Copies of this letter go to Mark Goodfellow (with a copy of yours) and to Bill Nicoll, with an extra one for Pat Dodge.
RP Hope
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