PERSONAL
Sir Murray MacLehose
GBE KCMG KCVO
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
HONG KONG
68A
الهداه
3 September 1976
1. Very many thanks for your letter of 28th with which you enclosed a draft programme. I am most grateful for the trouble that is being gone to over this and I do not wish to make any alterations.
2. I am also grateful for the thoughts in paragraphs 6 and 7 of your letter. I, too, am very conscious of the renewed difficulties of the last year or so and of the amount of time- wasting, and indeed damage, that has been caused by all these. I, too, very much hope, and indeed I am confident, that agree- ments reached during your recent visit should help to contain these difficulties. I am, however, equally confident that constant vigilance at both our ends will be necessary to avoid future misunderstandings and cases of minor irritation being blown up into major battles.
3. Denys Roberts has kindly offered to put me up during the week before I come to stay with you. I have said that I would prefer to stay at the hotel and I shall try to speak to Denys before he leaves to explain to him that this is only because I really do want to do a lot of reading and thinking during my all too short visit to Hong Kong.
4.
I am very much looking forward to my visit and I shall certainly come with an open and sympathetic mind.
JAB Stewart
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