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and China remained good. If it were not, we should not have got the Guangdong contract and the BP oil concession. These Sino-British economic links formed a protective envelope around

the negotiations.

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Mr Gomersall,

Mr Galsworthy,

Mr Maclaren,

Mr Donald

Mr Clift, HKD✓

Mr Elliott, FED

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