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views of the Governor and Mr Goodlad. We have also taken account of points from the Embassy in Peking.
4. No. 10 would like this paper to be circulated if possible by the weekend.
5. One point of explanation. Para 11 of the paper refers to
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reinforcing a message from the Secretary of State to Qian through Ministerial contact with Ambassador Ma here. This reflects a thought from the Governor in commenting on an earlier draft of the paper. He thought that, at a time when the Chinese were considering their options, it could be very valuable if the Secretary of State were able to give Ma a meal to reinforce his
message to Qian. Rather than commit the Secretary of State to doing this in the OPD (K) paper, we have used a slightly more general formulation. One possibility would be for Mr Goodlad to offer lunch to Ma. The Department could pursue that with him on
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