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JOHN SWIRE & SONS LTD
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59 Buckinghamı Gate
London SWIE 6AJ
Registered Office
Registered Number 133143 ENGLAND
From Sir Adrian Swire
Chairman
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SWIRE G
7th December, 1992.
The Rt. Hon. Alastair Goodlad, MP, Minister of State,
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, King Charles Street,
LONDON, SW1A 2AL.
Dear Alastair,
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This may well have come through to you on the officialget, but I thought you might be interested in having the attached, namely the notes which Peter Sutch prepared for the helpful, private meeting which he had with Chris Patten last week.
Our necessity, as Swires, is to hold to the middle ground. We cannot evade the fact of life (and it has, to date, been a very good signal for the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong) that PRC interests have invested over £500 mn. cash in the equity of Swire Group companies in Hong Kong and we have a corporate responsibility to listen to what they, and indeed the 24,000 individual shareholders in Swire Pacific and Cathay Pacific, have to say.
I have told Peter Sutch that his current personal and corporate position as Taipan of Swires in Hong Kong is, at a more modest level, analogous to that of King Hussein in the Gulf War so he has nothing (much!) to worry about.
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Yours sincerely,
c.c. P.D.A. Sutch, Esq.,
John Swire & Sons, Hong Kong.
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