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on the subject until H.E.'s visit in July. In
the meantime Mr. Cortazzi saw advantage in proposing
an agreed paper for the 5 of S, taking full account
of the Hong Kong point of view. H.E. said that
the redraft should bring out the very large overlap
of interest and identity of view between Hong Kong
and the U.K.
6.
It was agreed that CS would go to
London with a senior official on the finance side to
work on the draft in the FCO in the week beginning
7 June.
7.
Mr. Cortazzi said that Lord Goronwy-
Roberts had asked him to say that the planning paper
represented the minimum that he could get away with
in terms of social progress. Lord Goronwy Roberts
had also been dissatisfied with the budget which
had not been consistent with HE's letter to him.
H.E. wondered if there had not been a misunderstandin
as the budget gave effect to all the plans he had
outlined in his personal letter to Lord Goronwy-
Roberts before the budget had been announced.
thought the provisions of the budget good, and had
enabled the Government to pick up momentum on its
social programmes. He did not necessarily agree
with some of the economic theory in the budget speech
but the estimates of expenditure and their practical
effect were what mattered; the theory was a matter
of personal opinion.
He
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