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May whereby we make
commitment in principle to tak e comparable
numbers" in future years, perhaps conditionally on
on securing support
from other resettlement countries. But I do not think it would be
sensible to put this forward to the Home Secretary before he has
even replied to our original proposal.
7. It begins to look as though Home Office tactics have been to
string us along until the summer recess was up on us SO as to make
further action impossible. I do not underestimate the Home Office's
problems on this in the general
shown по recognition that
that there
responsibility towards Hong Kong. I do not think we can afford to
acquiesce in this. It was agreed at a meeting with Mr Luce on 11
immigration context. But they have
are also problems related to HMG's
July
that we should recommend the Secretary of State to minute the
Home Secretary again fairly sharply, and because of the danger that
such a minute would also go unanswered, to ask at the s ame time for
an urgent meeting with him. I attach a draft.
8.
In view of the
have suggested
shortness of time before the summer recess, I
that this minute together with the original, should
now be copied to No 10. I expect
I expect that the Home Secretary will
regard this as a dirty trick, but it is he who has frustrated Our
efforts to sort the problem out bilaterally. The Prime Minister's
support for our position cannot obviously be guaranteed, but I think
our strongest point with her is the "moral commitment" to Hong Kong,
which is well expressed in the Secretary of State's original minute.
12 July 1985
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