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Hong Kong was the psychological one of changing the attitudes of local senior officials and Unofficials. In my view it is possible to place too great a burden for this on any Governor, particularly after a few years in Hong Kong. For this reason I have greatly modified the last section of the paper on British/Hong Kong relations, to suggest ways of promoting greater understanding with the Colony more generally.

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It is difficult to predict the Governor's reaction to the draft planning paper when he sees it but I would hope he could be persuaded to treat the issues as temperately as he has done in his Despatch.

9 March 1976

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Mr Larmour

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PL O'Keeffe

Hong Kong & Indian Ocean Dept..

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