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4. Printing of the despatch presents some difficulty. It is

obviously of great general interest but the extensive passage on

the future deals with questions which are only handled by a

restricted number of persons in London, Hong Kong and the Embassy

in Peking. I shall discuss a possible sanitised version with

Sir Murray next week. Meanwhile Ministers may wish to thank

him personally for the despatch when he calls.

Bris

R D Clift

6 May 1982

Hong Kong and General Department

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Private Secretary

PS/PUS

Mr Giffard

Mr Donald

Mr Elliott, FED

Mr Mallaby, Planning Staff Sir E Youde

Spoke 1915,

Mr. Monis

Pl. speak

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