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1. THERE ARE QUITE A FEW OBVIOUS CANDIDATES FOR THE GUEST LIST FOR

THE PRIME MINISTER'S DINNER. THE FOLLOWING MAY BE LESS OBVIOUS.

(A) PROFESSOR GERALD AYLMER (MASTER OF ST PETER'S COLLEGE, OXFORD,

WHO VISITED CHINA FOR THREE WEEKS AS A BRITISH COUNCIL LECTURER IN

SEPTEMBER 1985).

(B) CHARLES AYLMER (LECTURER IN CHINESE AT CAMBRIDGE AND LEADER OF

THE GROUP OF TWENTY BRITISH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS OF CHINESE WHICH

VISITED CHINA AT ZHAO ZHYANG'S #NVITATION THIS MONTH: A RELATION OF

GERALD AYLMER).

(C) DR DOROTHY HODGKIN (A VISITOR TO CHINA IN THE AUTUMN OF 1985

AND OF COURSE ONE OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S TUTORS AT OXFORD: SHE DOES

HOWEVER, SUFFER FROM FAIRLY ACUTE ARTHRITIS IN HER HANDS).

(D) STUART YOUNG (CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE BBC, WHO VISITED CHINA THIS MONTH).

(E) PROFESSOR COCHRANE (A PROFESSOR OF PLASTIC SURGERY AT EAST

GRINSTEAD WHO IS THE GRANDSON OF THE COCHRANE WHO ORIGINALLY ENDOWED

THE PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE NOW SO-CALLED AGAIN AND WHO WIGHTED CHINA IN THE SUMMER OF 1984).

(F) SHR RONALD MACINTOSH (WHO VISITED CHINA AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BRINTHISH FOOD AND BEVERAGE GROUP AND AS DEPUTY LEADER OF LORD JELLICOE'S MISSION IN FEBRUARY 1986).

(G) LORD TAVISTOCK (WHO VISITED CHINA IN NOVEMBER 1985 AND WHOSE ACTION IN SENDING 22 PERE DAVID DEER TO CHINA WENT DOWN EXTREMELY WELL)

(H) LORD THOMSON OF MONIF:#ETH (QUA CHAIRMAN, ik THINK, OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE THOMSON FOUNDATION)

(*) SHR HARRY (LORD JUST:LCE) WOOLF (WHO WAS ENCHANTED BY HIS RECENT VHSIKT TO CHINA, DURING WHICH HE WAS GIVEN DINNER BY A VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT).

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