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His Excellency

Sir Richard Evans KCMG

PEKING

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London SW1A 2AH

CONFIDENTIAL

14 October 1985

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15 OCT 1985

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Dear Richard,

HONG KONG: A CHANGE OF DESTINY

1.

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REGISTRY

on Taken

19 September querying

Thank you for your letter of 19

the decision not to print your despatch in the general

series.

scope

was taken on

the the basis that for the despatch, which essentially the mechanical process of the

not and did

the wider

itself to

themselves,

cover

The decision 2. you had set yourself confined negotiations issues of past and in particular future policy, though perfectly valid in itself

made an objective, despatch rather less relevant to the general reader.

much broader scope, which is why his On the whole, general distribution.

as

Governor covered a despatch was given we still feel that am sorry if it has caused disappointment.

3.

the

The

this was the right decision, though I

that on

our

with embarrassment, I must however confess, with

into the looking

matter we have

that discovered instructions to print the despatch in the departmental series either never reached the printers, or were mislaid by them. We

We now taking steps to put are now

to put this

this right.

that the

despatch printed

is given a wide those likely to

in interested

will

see

distribution among

details of the negotiations.

be

the

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eve,

Tay

AC Galsworthy

Hong Kong Department

CONFIDENTIAL