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properly can to implement the plans. In case of recession a variety of expedients would be open to us. But Hong Kong's dependence on external economic and political forces makes a degree of uncertainty about long-term plans inevitable.

I enclose three spare copies.

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RJT McLaren Esq

Hong Kong and General Department FCO

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