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FROM: SIR MURRAY MACLEHOSE, GBE, KCMG, KCVO

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Capital Punish General Se Head

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE

GRAFTON STREET LONDON WIX 3 L B

PERSONAL

28/8

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27 August, 1981

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D. Nichdan,

It was,

Thank you for giving me so much of your time.

for me,

a very interesting and valuable meeting.

When I saw the Secretary of State at Bledlow I did not raise capital punishment. The circumstances (ladies present, mind on agriculture) were totally wrong and, in any case, on reflection I thought that until we had a constitutional view from the Lawyers it was premature to bother him. The Lawyers may well provide us with a defensible formula.

I look forward to seeing you and your wife in November.

Your

The Hon. Nicholas Ridley, MP,

Minister of State,

Foreign & Commonwealth Office,

King Charles Street,

London, SW1A 2AH.

May

HKG 380/8

- SEP 1981

TELEPHONE: 01-499 9821

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