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that it is

short-term

very

important, both in Hong Kong's

interests and Britain's longer-term ones, that HMG should respond to such demands with sympathy and understanding. Indeed, this is all the more

important since 4 June if Hong Kong is to survive the present crisis and enjoy the stable and prosperous future, both before and after 1997, which we have an historical duty to try to provide and to which so much effort has been devoted.

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I am sending a copy of Ambassador in Peking.

this despatch to HM

I remain, Sir,

Yours faithfully,

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David Wilson

Governor

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