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Mr Clarke

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1. I attach a minute recording the outcome of my visit to Brighton on 1 March and a copy of a follow-up letter that I have now sent to Ms Clyne. I should be grateful if you could now take the next steps as follows:-

(i) Contact Dr Peter Lyon at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,

University of London (my minute of 9 November 1978 at folio 31 on the 1978 file) and ask if you can go and see him to get his ideas on possible participants: it would be particularly helpful if he could give us the names of anybody he knows in London who are actually from any of the Soweth Dependent territories;

(ii) Once you have done that, produce a consolidated list of

possible participants.

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Mr McLaren has suggested that once this list is ready, he should circulate copies to all those in the Office who have shown an interest in this seminar, and convene a meeting in order to draw up a first and second eleven. I should be grateful if you could in due course submit the consolidated list with a draft minute from Mr McLaren (which should, among other things, outline the stage we have reached on such things as location, dates and possible programme).

23 March 1979

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WE Quantrill

Hong Kong and General Department

HKG.025/4

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