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I agree with Mr. Campbell.
2. The net result of all this will be that Hong Kong will get the two additional artillery units (for some years at least), but will pay themselves for the additional cost of stationing these units in Hong Kong. The U.K. Government has reduced the garrison, acknowledged (not in clear terms, but by implication) that the reduced garrison is not really adequate and agreed to augment it provided Hong Kong pays. This is not a very dignified position for the U.K. but appears to be unavoidable. The difficulty earlier was that Sir Alexander Grantham told us, in effect, that he could not sell such a · proposition to his legislators without the risk of a major row and public criticism of H.M.G. Sir Robert Black apparently thinks that he can get away with this.
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Sir Alexander Grantham advanced as a proposition that he thought he might be able to get away with the suggestion that Hong Kong would pay the additional cost of these units (or part of it) if the U.K. agreed in advance that, when it came to a settlement over Service lands being vacated as a result of the closure of the Dockyard, the payment made by Hong Kong for these units should be taken into account (in one way or
more than one way has been suggested and I need not go into the details here). Sir Robert Black has now come to the view (which, with respect, I am sure is the right one) that the additional units and the lands question must be dealt with entirely separately.
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3.We now go all out to get the units as quickly as possible, with Hong Kong paying the additional cost.
4. When it comes to the argument over the Service lands. I do not think that we shall be at all in a bad position to support the Hong Kong Government. I have it in mind that the agreement which the Secretary of State has put over on behalf of the Ministry of Defence with the Singapore delegation in the current Conference is very much more favourable to Singapore than what the Service Departments and the Treasury would like to put over on Hong Kong. This will have to be looked at in detail when the time comes (the title, if any, on which the Service Departments hold the lands concerned in Hong Kong is X very relevant), but the salient point of the agreement now reached is that when "land made available to the Service authorities by the Singapore Government becomes surplus to Service requirements it will revert to the Singapore Government. There is no question of the Service Departments getting any cash payment from the Singapore Government for the land. they will be entitled to will be a fair price for the assets they have put on the land.
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