CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
8 June 1982
327
RJT McLaren Esq CMG Political Advisor HONG KONG
Dear Robin.
ECONOMIST CONFERENCE
1.
682
HICH
0401
251. P401016
My letter of 21 May. Although this conference has been cancelled, R C Lee's unhelpful speech is now in the hands among others of the Economist and will probably surface somewhere soon (e.g. in the Economist itself or in the Far Eastern Economic Review). If the conference had gone ahead Jack Cater was looking to Allan Lee to respond but this may not be so easy now.
2. I am sure you will be considering on a contingency basis whether it would be useful to encourage someone in Hong Kong, preferably
a local businessman, to respond sensibly to Dick Lee's ideas,
at least plugging the Hong Kong dollar point. We should be interested to know what transpires.
See /363
c.c.
Sir J Cater, KBE
Drih
Hong Kong Government Office
6 Grafton Street
London W1X 3LD
RD Clift
Hong Kong and General Department
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