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SUPREME COURT
HONG KONG,
some quiet checking into the second sentence of your letter of 10/1/86. I much regret to inform you that you have been misled Administrative Branch (for one), the ban is total.
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Elspeth was looking particularly well, which we were glad to
We both envy you
see, because last summer she looked very strained. your visit to China, because you will undoubtedly see more than we did on our last visit; and there are so many wonderful things there to see.
It is such a pity that you are not allowed to go to Hong Kong with H.M.. I do not wholly understand that because I thought that the Colonial Office had merged with the Dominion Office and the Foreign Office, and that that made you Colonial Secretary as well as Foreign Secretary, in which former capacity, of course, you would be entitled to accompany Her here. Think on it, Geoffrey - it might just work!!!
Did I tell you that we have 4 Benchers of Middle now residing here? We have decided to arrange a regular meeting of Middle Templars here, and at the recent get-together in the Judge's Mess recently we found over 40! We are holding a dinner on 21st March, and hope to have something like 60- which is nearly half of the Hong Kong Bar (including those locally qualified)!!
If you do want to take an incognito holiday in Bali after your China trip, (I assume that you would not wish to visit Manila just yet. I enclose a copy of an article from the S.C.M.P. which you may find of interest.) please let me know, because Lucille has an interest in a hotel there, and we both have a number of friends living there and can make special arrangements for you, such as for you to be shewn things that you would otherwise be unable to see, for example dress rehearsals of traditional, historical or allegorical dance in the Temples at night.
Lucille joins me in sending our warmest regards to you both.
Yours sincerely,
Miler.
(M.H. Jackson-Lipkin)
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