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optimism, but that the maintenance of confidence was a delicate matter and it was particularly important therefore that due caution should be exercised in public pronouncements on the issue.

Contact with the British Embassy

7. I said that Mr James would have liked to accompany me on this call, but was unfortunately out of Tokyo yesterday. Ji said that he looked forward very much to maintaining contact with Mr James in the future. Ji does, in fact, speak some English and said that he had studied English for one year in Hong Kong in the 1940s but had had little opportunity to use it since then.

Comment

8. Ji's comments on the issues raised were very much on standard lines. He was not particularly forthcoming, but very affable and it would seen worthwhile to keep in touch with him.

cc Mr Darroch

Mr James or

Mr Inkster, Peking Mr Cox, FED FOO

марке

KC Walker

27 October 1983 Far East Section Research Department

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