TNAG-0893-FCO40-1103-Refugees-from-Vietnam-in-Hong-Kong-Vietnamese-boat-people-1979 — Page 128

From: The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey Howe, QC MP

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I should be grateful if you could let me have a comment on the points made in the thoughtful letter which I enclose from a constituent, Mr. R. C. Thornton.

You will see that he is broadly on our side on the question of principle affecting the treatment of Vietnamese refugees - but that he develops a slightly unusual argument about the responsibility which should fall upon Hong Kong.

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