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SIR PERCY CRADOCK

1.

I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO HAVE A NOTE ABOUT PERCY CRADOCK'S --

VISIT HERE.

2.

AS YOU KNOW, THE VISIT COINCIDED WITH THE FOURTH ROUND OF THE HONG KONG TALKS, AND WITH A VISIT BY THE MINISTER FOR DISABLED PERSONS, MR NICHOLAS SCOTT. THIS MEANT THAT I WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND JIANG ENZHU'S DINNER FOR HIM (NIGEL COX WENT INSTEAD), OR TO INVITE HIM TO THE HOUSE. THE ONLY TIME I WAS ABLE TO SEE HIM WAS ON THE EVENING OF 29 MAY WHEN I CALLED ON HIM AT HIS HOTEL AFTER WE HAD

ATTENDED DIFFERENT BANQUETS.

3. WE HAD ORIGINALLY BOOKED PERCY INTO THE JIANGUO HOTEL BUT CHANGED HIS RESERVATION TO THE CHINA WORLD AFTER THE DATES FOR THE FOURTH ROUND WERE FIXED SINCE WE DID NOT THINK IT WOULD BE POLITIC FOR PERCY TO STAY IN THE SAME HOTEL AS THE TEAM FOR THE TALKS AND THE ACCOMPANYING HONG KONG JOURNALISTS (NOT THAT THE SWITCH DID MUCH GOOD: THE JOURNALISTS SOON FOUND OUT HE WAS IN THE CHINA WORLD AND PESTERED HIM GREATLY). PERCY HAD BEEN DUE TO ARRIVE IN PEKING FROM SHANGHAI IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MORNING OF 27 MAY BUT DID NOT GET HERE UNTIL VERY LATE ON THE EVENING OF THAT DAY. HE SPENT THE ENTIRE DAY AT THE AIRPORT, WHICH WAS CLOSED FOR MOST OF IT BECAUSE AN AIRCRAFT HAD SLEWED ACROSS THE RUNWAY AND COULD NOT BE MOVED FOR

MANY HOURS.

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PERCY'S ONLY ENGAGEMENTS IN PEKING WERE HIS DINNER WITH JIANG ENZHU ORIGINALY SCHEDULED FOR THE THURSDAY NIGHT AND SWITCHED TO SATURDAY AND A CALL ON THE STATE ECONOMIC AND TRADE COMMISSION. HE TOLD ME THAT JIANG HAD INDICATED THAT A CALL ON A LEADER WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRANGED BUT HAD BEEN OMITTED IN DEFERENCE TO PERCY'S

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