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UNCLASSIFIED

OF

CHANCELLOR

THE EXCHE

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FROM:

OWEN BARDER

DATE:

21 OCTOBER 1993

EXTN:

5004

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MEETING WITH SIR WILLIAM PURVIS

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PS/Economic Secretary

PS/Sir T Burns

Mr Budd

Sir N Wicks

Mr H P Evans Mrs Lomax Mr Gieve

Mr Mortimer Mr Sedgwick Mr Gray Mr Whiting Mr Cunliffe

Mr Farthing

Mr D E W Owen Mr Richardson Mr Wood Mrs Keswick

Mr Sawers

Mr Smith

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met Sir William Purvis,

The Chancellor and Economic Secretary

Chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, on

Thursday, 21 October at 11.40 am. Mrs Keswick was also present. The Chancellor was most grateful for your brief.

IMF/IBRD Annual Meetings

2.

The Chancellor said that he regretted that he had not had an

opportunity to meet Sir William Purvis at the IMF/IBRD Annual Meetings in Washington. He had gone to the meetings a little

cynical about their value; he came back with a more mellow

opinion. Sir William Purvis agreed that the scale of the occasion was quite ridiculous. Bankers did, however, use the opportunity to get to meet each other; and to try to get money back from, and

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