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Sir J Cater KBE

Commissioner

PERSONAL AND CONFIDE AL

Hong Kong Government Office

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

22 November 1983

MKKOA8/13

RECEIVED IN ZEGISTRY

6 Grafton Street

LONDON W1X 3LB

Dear Tach,

SIR PHILIP GOODHART MP

25 NOV 1333

MOISTRY

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CHATIT

1. Thank you very much for your letter of 21 November See (58) about Sir Philip Goodhart's proposal.

2. If I may say so, I think that the line which you took in conversation with Sir Philip was very helpful. I shall be letting Mr Luce know about Sir Philip's approach to you.

3. We have now received from Hong Kong a copy of the reply which Ossie Cheung has sent to Sir Philip. As you see it is polite but reasonably off-putting.

You

Dich

R D Clift

Hong Kong Department

cc: L M Davies Esq CMG OBE

HONG KONG

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL