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For this

on the Governt had stressed now

important it was to try and do something

for Hong Kong. Mr. Royle endorsed this

point and said that his impression had

been that the Governor was bitter about some

of the things that had been said by

ministers wercontext. Mr. Butler

repeated his concern about the timing of

such an operation. He also wondered now

ministers would reply to Opposition

qestions in the House to the effect that

the Government was prepared to reopen

the negotiations for Hong Kong, but not

ver Britain itself.

4.

would

Mr. Youde said that on 1 January

we started discriminating against Hong

Kong. He repeated Mr. Rippon's two

undertakings, said how seriously Hong

Kong took them and reiterated that the

Prime Minister would be faced with very

embarrassing questions on Hong Kong if

we did not do something about them. ́ ́

Mr. Robinson said that it was not the

intention his side of the Office to

ell

a

sede Hong Kong down the river. There were

wider considerations.

If we did something

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