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SUPREME COURT

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4th March, 1986

(dictated 28th February, 1986)

The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey Howe, Q.C., M.P. Foreign and Commonwealth Office,PERSONAL

White House,

London, S.W.1,

England.

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We were so pleased to have an opportunity to see you, albeit so short, and it was especially thoughtfully of you to arrange it in your office, which Lucille had never seen before. I was sorry to see you on such a distressed state, but I quite understood as I had had a nasty virus throat the week before. Lucille has just come down with a very nasty cold herself. The weather here has been very strange since our return. It hops between warm and very cold; for example, yesterday at lunch time it was nearly 20 and this morning in our flat it was 9 and in the countryside 6 !!

If you have not got over that cold yet, may I suggest that you send out to a Chinese medicine shop in Soho for some Po Chai Yuen. It must be drunk hot, undiluted and very strong and should be taken before retiring to bed; but it does miracle work. I must warn you, however, that it is extremely bitter.

I promised to send you the cartoon concerning Renton, and I enclose a copy of the Far Eastern Economic Review for that week: You will find it at p.18. I did not cut it out because I thought you will like to see the whole publication. I do not know if you have ever seen it before, but it is quite a good magazine.

I do hope that the House by now has stopped tearing itself to pieces over what is little more than a foolish example of ill-manners, and that Parliament will be able to find little time to address itself to the monstrous immorality of retrospective deprivation of nationality, and that it would shew a little compassion for 300 ex-prisoners of war and 11,000 frightened people, who are neither expatriate Chinese nor politically "British Citizens". It is so sad to see such loyalty being wantonly cast aside, and those of us, who are lawyers, are deeply offended by the retrospective nature of the actions being taken.

There have been more problems over the unseemly gallop into localisation for its own sake, including Leaders in the papers in both languages (one enclosed), and speeches from all the Civil Service

Where will it all end? What is the Welsh for "Think"?

Unions.

Unfortunately I am not familiar with the language! On my return, I did