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Republic if we cannot get the sort of deal over Hong Kong that some people seem to envisage as practical.

I regard this as a serious matter, John, and a subject which will have to be discussed much more thoroughly in the months ahead.

I would be grateful, therefore, for your further elucidation of that sentence in your letter which causes me concern.

The Right Honourable Lord Belstead,

Minister of State,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

London,

S.W.1.

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