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want is to weaken your position in the Colony or to see Ministers seeking to impose policies you, and your successors, cannot implement. But if the general strategy of the Planning Paper is accepted by the Secretary of State, there will be an obvious need to promote a wider identity of purpose between your administration and Whitehall. Accordingly the last section of the Planning Paper suggests additional means of keeping the Whitehall dimension in focus in Hong Kong, a task which at present falls so much to you. This is a matter on which I would particularly welcome your views in due course.
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As the outlook for the visit is at present uncertain, perhaps there is no need for you to comment on the Planning Paper in writing at this stage. We shall be telegraphing as soon as the situation is clearer and we can then consider how to proceed further. Meanwhile you may care to study the attached note which seeks to isolate the points on which there is still some difference of opinion between your second Despatch and the Planning Paper.
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