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General Secretary Miss Mildred Nevile

Dear Chris,

594-1952

CIIR

Catholic Institute for International Relations 22 Coleman Fields London N1 7AF

Telephone 01-354 0883

February 1st 1932

We received your letter this morning, and I have been contacting a number of people and organisations here in Britain, some of whom have already written in answer to your appeal. I just hope there is enough time for them to reach HK before your appeal.

We wondered whether it would not be useful to try and assemble information about other cases in which people have been shifted out essentially for political reasons, by the same sneaky methods. armencita Karagdag is one example: do you know of others ? If you can document any, let us know: it may be possible to raise the issue, for example in parliament.

I'm afraid it is unlikely that the press will pick up the issue, unless it gets attached to something more newsworthy' but we are informing several journalists, some of whom may respond aindividually.

I'm really upset to hear what has happened. If your appeal is not successful, what do you intend to do? Let's hope that we can persuade the officials to change their minds for once. At all events, we send our support keep in touch whatever happens.