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Sir Murray MacLehose GBE KCMG KCVO HONG KONG
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
18 June 1976
1.
We are grateful to Denys Roberts (and to David Jeafferson) for sparing the time to come to London last week (and to you for releasing them). I hope that they found their visit as useful as we did: the whole exercise reinforces my belief that there
I hope, too, that should be more personal contact of this kind. their absence from the Colony did not lead to too much embarrassing speculation in the press.
2. I imagine that Denys has now shown you the redraft of those sections of the Paper dealing with internal policies and relations
The Department have now tidied these between Britain and Hong Kong.
up and prepared a final version of the full Paper, as agreed with Denys. I would be grateful if you could let us know if there are any points with which you disagree and which we will need to thrash out during your forthcoming visit.
3. We will be submitting a copy of the Paper to Michael Palliser and, subject to his agreement, we will then submit it to the Secretary of State. He has, incidentally, said that he would very much like a chance to talk to you during your visit in July and this has been In this context you will, arranged for 4.30 on Thursday, 22 July.
I think, wish to see the record of Lord Goronwy-Roberts' meeting with Denys on 11 June, which will give you an insight into ministerial
For the attitudes to the subjects raised in the Planning Paper.
sake of completeness, I also enclose a copy of the summary record of the office meeting I held to consider the redrafts of the last two sections of the Paper and Annex C.
4. I am sending a copy of this letter and its enclosures to Teddy Youde, with many thanks for the thoughtful comments contained in his letter of 24 May.
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HAH Cortazzi
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