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proposed and the manner of its proposal are to me quite unacceptable.

4.

Sir Robert Black will be returning from abroad next week and it is hoped to arrange discussions with him in the Department on Hong Kong defence matters on Tuesday the 7th. He is to see the Secretary of State on Wednesday afternoon, the 8th, at 3.30. I think he should certainly be brought into discussion on this matter.

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