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In view of the recent representations to me by the Governor the matter was taken up again with the Foreign Office, Commonwealth Relations Office, Ministry of Defence and Treasury, who are all interested in some degree, and all agreed that, for the reasons given in paragraph 1, the time had come to go ahead, in spite of the present unsettled situation in the Far East. The introduction of these reforms, involving as they do considerable drafting and consultation with the Hong Kong Government, will take several months and if, in the meantime, the situation in the Far East should deteriorate, they could again be deferred.
5. I recommend that we should proceed with constitutional reform in Hong Kong on these lines.
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