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From: The Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey Howe, QC MP
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Mr Brenton ESED
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HOUSE OF COMMONS
LONDON SWIA OAA
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May I trouble you yet again for advice?
15th October, 1991
The problem arises
from the enclosed copy bundle of papers received from Sir Hugh
Casson.
It would certainly be within the folk memory of Private
Office (I am not sure whether or not you were involved?) that we
have had a long lasting problem trying to avoid a commitment
which Hugh Casson argued had been taken on by HMG, for the
financing of some not dissimilar project of this kind. My memory
does not suggest that it was a Chinese-based project (despite the
reference in the first sentence of his letter) but something that was in some way connected with Canada although I could be
wrong.
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But I do have the clearest possible memory that it was a
troublesome business so that I am most anxious not to find
myself similarly entangled on this occasion. On the other hand,
I should be perfectly happy to back something that was totally
well-funded and respectable. So I asked David Wilson, whom I happened to see earlier this week, how well he had investigated the aspects of the matter before writing his letter of 9th
September. The answer was less than wholly reassuring.
Hence,
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