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The Hon D H Jordan
CMG MBE JP
Director
Trade, Industry & Customs Dept
46 Connaught Road Central
HONG KONG
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121|1
HKK bill.
No
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161, &
16 January 1978
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See 4
1. Thank you for your letter of 5 January 1978.
2. I am sorry that you should have obtained the impression that anyone in this department should have thought that a point you had troubled to telephone about was insignificant. John Thompson has asked me to add his personal apologies.
3. I can say, from my own knowledge, that Thompson in fact spent the best part of that day and the next in trying to establish our true position on this and arguing on your behalf. If he was flippant on the telephone that was almost certainly because of the quite considerable pressure under which he was working (on your behalf). I can assure you that he fought enthusiastically and whole-heartedly for the Hong Kong cause in November and December.
4. I now simply hope, as I am sure you do, that the negotiations have been concluded. You will by now have seen our telegram no. 31 exploding the canard set out in your telegram no. 1 to UKMIS Geneva. I was relieved to see, from the Hong Kong English Language press the the translations of the Chinese press provided by your department, that opinion in Hong Kong in general seemed to view the agreement as much less of a disaster than had at one stage been feared.
JAB Stewart
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