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Sir C Rose telephoned me this morning about this paper which
He is not happy with it.
he admitted he has botched together.
He
considers that it is weighted in favour of the FCO and that it contains a special pleading which will need to be tidied up in detailed discussion. He wishes me to be present at the meeting.
2. I do not agree with the last two sentences of paragraph 9 which, at least as far as Hong Kong is concerned, do not contain an arguable proposition. Indeed it seems to me that the argument in the second sentence of paragraph 18 applies even more strongly to overseas dependencies with their totally different local traditions.
J. Stratten
R J Stratton
14 September 1977
I do not like the wording of the tast sentence of para 6
agree
with Mr Stratton that the last two sentences of para & are at best simplistic.
2.
of
our Ministars
Owe representatives on the committee will Cowene need to take account of views as expressed in DOP (77) 19 ie. we cannot
back on the basic recommendation therein although
we should do our best to tioly the drafting + argumentation. Mr Tornell had some valid points
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Mr Station 11/1 Mr Stewart.
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