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CONFIDENTIAL AND PERSONAL

Mr Holland

HONG KONG

I attach the Bank of England paper which has been sent to me direct. I have not kept any copies.

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Sir Murray MacLehose asked if I would pass it to you in this form, and suggested that you should send it to him in Hong Kong with your comments in an envelope marked "To be opened by Sir M MacLehose personally".

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Since the Bank have sent us this note, it seems unnecessary to pretend to them that we do not know what is in it. However, the Governor clearly wishes to avoid any discussion in Whitehall, and I suppose we must fall in with his wishes.

DESE

A C Stuart

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept.

20 December 1974