Year
Visitors to UK
1955
1956
1957
1958
SH1AAC
Visitors to China
March-April. Sino-British Trade Committee delegation Aug-Sept. Goodwill dele- gation led by Mr Maurice Orbach, MP.
October. Private visit to Beijing by Sir Alexander Grantham Governor of Hong Kong met Zhou Enlai. Dec. Hong Kong University delegation led by Edmund Blunden
Significant events
April. "Kashmir Princess" airliner, with Chinese Bandung delegation, sabotaged by KMT. 28 May. Release of last detained British subject, Robert Ford.
Aug-Sept. Parliamentary delegation.
Jan-April. Exchange of Notes on registration of Trade Marks
Nov. Economic and Technical delegation
Oct. Mr F J Erroll, Parlia- mentary Under Secretary, Board of Trade
Mr C Mayhew MP and Mr D Donnelly, MP
Feb. Mr Harold Wilson, MP. Aug-Sept. Mr Richard Crossman, MP.
June. UK relaxes trade embargo on China.
July. Further relaxation of trade embargo
Oct. Arrest of two British subjects in Shanghai (not sentenced until 1960).
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